Jeremiah 5:1

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the LORD’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

Psalm 12:1

Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from amongst the children of men.

Psalm 14:2

The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone aside. 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 wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Proverbs 20:6

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Isaiah 59:4

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Jeremiah 2:29

“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 44:15

Then all the men who knew that their wives burnt incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, 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 didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in 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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore the LORD of Hosts says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

Ezekiel 22:30

“I sought for a man amongst them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, 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 full of perversion; for they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn’t see.’

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”

Joel 2:9

They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

Amos 8:12

They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word, and will not find it.

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

Luke 14:21

“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.