Jeremiah 5:1

Modern English Version

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, see now and know; seek in the open places if you can find a man, if there is any who executes justice, who seeks the truth, that I may pardon her.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, Lord of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek to take my life.”

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the Lord move about on all the earth to strengthen the heart that is completely toward Him. You have acted foolishly in this, and from this point forward you will have wars.”

Psalm 12:1

Help, Lord, for the godly man comes to an end, for the faithful disappear from the sons of men.

Psalm 14:2

The Lord looks down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone astray; they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

Psalm 94:16

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Proverbs 20:6

Many a man will proclaim each his own goodness, but a loyal man, who can find?

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and sell it not; also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates in front of the city, at the entrance of the doors she cries out:

Song of Solomon 3:2

“I will rise now and walk around the city, in the streets and in the plazas; I will seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him, but did not find him.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 2:29

Why will you plead with Me? You all have transgressed against Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:15

Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying:

Jeremiah 8:6

I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right. No man repented of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they all are adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: Behold, I will refine them and assay them; for what else shall I do for the daughter of My people?

Ezekiel 22:30

I sought for a man among them who would build up the hedge and stand in the gap before Me for the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perverseness, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Joel 2:9

They rush on the city, they run on the wall; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like thieves.

Amos 8:12

They will wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him, “Run, say to this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and animals in her.

Luke 14:21

“The servant came and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in anger said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love for the truth that they might be saved.