Jeremiah 5:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord says, “Walk the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and think about these things. Search the public squares of the city. See if you can find one good person, one who does honest things and who searches for the truth. If you find one good person, I will forgive Jerusalem.

Cross References

Ezekiel 22:30

“I asked the people to change their lives and protect their country. I asked people to fix the walls. I wanted them to stand by those holes in the wall and fight to protect their city. But no one came to help!

2 Chronicles 16:9

The eyes of the Lord go around looking in all the earth for people who are faithful to him so that he can make them strong. Asa, you did a foolish thing. So from now on you will have wars.”

Isaiah 59:4

You can’t be trusted, even in court. You lie about each other and depend on false arguments to win your cases. You create pain and produce wickedness.

Psalm 14:3

But everyone has gone the wrong way. Everyone has turned bad. No one does anything good. No, not one person!

Proverbs 20:6

You might call many people your “friends,” but it is hard to find someone who can really be trusted.

Psalm 12:1

Save me, Lord! We can no longer trust anyone! All the good, loyal people are gone.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

The Man of Evil will use every kind of evil to fool those who are lost. They are lost because they refused to love the truth and be saved.

Luke 14:21

“So the servant returned and told his master what happened. The master was angry. He said, ‘Hurry! Go into the streets and alleys of the town. Bring me the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

Zechariah 2:4

He said to him, “Run and tell that young man this: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls, because there will be too many people and animals living there.’

Amos 8:12

The people will wander around the country, from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the north part of the country to the east. They will go back and forth looking for a message from the Lord, but they will not find it.

Joel 2:9

They run to the city. They quickly climb over the wall. They climb into the houses. They climb through the windows like thieves.

Daniel 12:4

“But you, Daniel, keep this message a secret. You must close the book and keep this secret until the time of the end. Many people will go here and there looking for true knowledge, and the true knowledge will increase.”

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will get up now! I will go around the city. In the streets and squares, I will look for the man I love. I looked for him, but I could not find him.

Proverbs 23:23

Truth, wisdom, learning, and understanding are worth paying money for. They are worth far too much to ever sell.

Proverbs 8:3

She is near the entrance to the city, calling from the open gates.

1 Kings 19:10

Elijah answered, “Lord God All-Powerful, I have always served you the best I can, but the Israelites have broken their agreement with you. They destroyed your altars and killed your prophets. I am the only prophet left alive, and now they are trying to kill me!”

Jeremiah 2:29

“Why do you argue with me? You have all turned against me.” This message was from the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:15

There were many people from Judah living in southern Egypt. Many of the women from Judah were meeting together in a large group and making sacrifices to other gods, and their husbands knew what they were doing. Those men said to Jeremiah,

Psalm 14:2

The Lord looks down from heaven to see if there is anyone who is wise, anyone who looks to him for help.

Psalm 94:16

No one helped me fight against the wicked. No one stood with me against those who do evil.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have listened to them very carefully, but they don’t say what is right. They are not sorry for their sins. They don’t think about the evil they have done. They do things without thinking. They are like horses running into a battle.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had a place in the desert— a house where travelers spend the night— so I could leave my people. I could go away from them, because they are all unfaithful to God. They have all turned against him.

Jeremiah 9:7

So the Lord All-Powerful says, “A worker heats metal in a fire to test it and see if it is pure. I will test the people of Judah like that. I have no other choice. My people have sinned.

Ezekiel 9:9

He said, “The family of Israel and Judah has committed many terrible sins! People are being murdered everywhere in this country, and the city is filled with crime. That is because the people say to themselves, ‘The Lord has left this country. The Lord cannot see what we are doing.’