Jeremiah 5:1

New International Version

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”

Psalm 12:1

Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.

Psalm 14:2

The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Psalm 14:3

All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalm 94:16

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?

Proverbs 20:6

Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth and do not sell it— wisdom, instruction and insight as well.

Proverbs 8:3

beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud:

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

Jeremiah 2:29

“Why do you bring charges against me? You have all rebelled against me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:15

Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present—a large assembly—and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah,

Jeremiah 8:6

I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. None of them repent of their wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Each pursues their own course like a horse charging into battle.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

Ezekiel 22:30

“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.

Ezekiel 9:9

He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”

Joel 2:9

They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows.

Amos 8:12

People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.

Luke 14:21

“The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.