Jeremiah 5:1

Tree of Life Version

Roam the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares! If you can find a person, if there is one who does justice, who seeks truth, then I will pardon the city.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

“I have been very zealous for Adonai-Tzva’ot,” he said, “for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and slain Your prophets with the sword—and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it!”

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of Adonai range throughtout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are wholly His. You have acted foolishly in this matter. Indeed, from now on you will have wars.”

Psalm 12:1

For the music director, on the eight-string lyre, a psalm of David.

Psalm 14:2

Adonai looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

Psalm 14:3

They all turned aside, became 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 stand up for me against evildoers?

Proverbs 20:6

Many a man proclaims his loyalty, but a faithful man who can find?

Proverbs 23:23

Acquire truth and do not sell it, acquire wisdom, instruction and understanding.

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will get up and go about the city, into the streets and into the squares. I must seek the one my soul loves. I looked for him but did not find him.

Isaiah 59:4

No one sues justly, and none pleads a case honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 2:29

Why do you strive with Me? You have all rebelled against Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 44:15

Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women that stood by—a large assembly—with all the people dwelling in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying:

Jeremiah 8:6

I listened attentively, but they have not spoken what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Each one turns in his own direction, like a horse charging into battle.

Jeremiah 9:2

They bend their tongue like a bow. Lies, not faithfulness, prevail in the land. “For they go from evil to evil and do not know Me,” says Adonai.

Jeremiah 9:7

Their tongue is a deadly arrow, speaking deceit. With his mouth each says shalom to his neighbor, while inwardly setting a trap for him.

Ezekiel 22:30

I searched for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Ezekiel 9:9

He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; the land is full of blood and the city is full of corruption. For they say, ‘Adonai has forsaken the land, Adonai does not see!’

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, close up the words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase.’

Joel 2:9

They rush on the city, they run on the wall, they climb up into the houses, coming through the windows like a thief.

Amos 8:12

So people will wander from sea to sea and roam from north to east, searching for the word of Adonai, but they will not find it.

Zechariah 2:4

I asked, ‘What are these coming to do?’ He answered, ‘These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to frighten them, to cast down the horns of the nations that have lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.’

Luke 14:21

“The slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house got angry and said to his slave, ‘Quickly go out into the squares and alleys of the city and bring here the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame.’

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with every kind of wicked deception toward those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth so as to be saved.