Yeremia 5:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lintasilah jalan-jalan Yerusalem, lihatlah baik-baik dan camkanlah! Periksalah di tanah-tanah lapangnya, apakah kamu dapat menemui seseorang, apakah ada yang melakukan keadilan dan yang mencari kebenaran, maka Aku mau mengampuni kota itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lintasilah jalan-jalan Yerusalem, lihatlah baik-baik dan camkanlah! Periksalah di tanah-tanah lapangnya, apakah kamu dapat menemui seseorang, apakah ada yang melakukan keadilan dan yang mencari kebenaran, maka Aku mau mengampuni kota itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hendaklah kamu berkeliling dalam kampung-kampung Yeruzalem, lihatlah baik-baik, bertanya-tanyalah dan carilah pada segala lorongnya, kalau-kalau kamu mendapat barang seorang, kalau-kalau ada seorang jua yang berbuat insaf, yang menuntut barang yang benar, niscaya Aku sayang akan dia kelak.

Contextual Overview

¹ Loke through Hierusalem, beholde and see, seeke through her streetes also within, yf ye can fynde one man that doth equall and ryght, or seketh for the trueth, and I shall spare that citie, saith the Lorde. ² For though they can say, the Lorde lyueth: yet they sweare to deceaue. ³ Wheras thou (O Lorde) lokest only vpon faith and trueth: Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce, thou hast corrected them for amendement, but they refused thy correction, they made their faces harder then a stone, and woulde not amende. ⁴ Therfore I thought in my selfe: peraduenture they are so simple & foolishe that they vnderstande nothyng of the Lordes way, and iudgementes of their God. ⁵ Therfore will I go vnto their heades and rulers, and talke with them, if they knowe the way of the Lord, and iudgementes of their God: But these [in lyke maner] haue broken the yoke, and burst the bondes in sunder. ⁶ Wherfore a lion out of the wood hath hurt them, and a woolfe in the euenyng shall destroy them, the Leoparde doth lye lurkyng by their cities, to teare in peeces all them that come therout: for their offences are multiplied, and their departyng away is encreased. ⁷ Shoulde I then for all this haue mercie vpon thee? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no gods: and albeit that I fed them to the full, yet they fall to adulterie, and haunt harlottes houses. ⁸ In the desire of vncleanly lust they are become lyke the stoned horse, euery man neyeth at his neighbours wife. ⁹ Shoulde I not correct this, saith the Lorde? shoulde I not be auenged of euery people that is lyke vnto this?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Run ye: 2 Chronicles 16:9, Daniel 12:4, Joel 2:9, Amos 8:12, Zechariah 2:4

seek: Proverbs 8:3, Song of Solomon 3:2, Luke 14:21

if ye can: 1 Kings 19:10, Proverbs 20:6, Ezekiel 22:30

if there: Genesis 18:23-32, Psalms 12:1, Psalms 14:3, Psalms 53:2-4, Micah 7:1, Micah 7:2

that seeketh: Proverbs 2:4-6, Proverbs 23:23, Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:14, Isaiah 59:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:24 - there Genesis 18:26 - General Genesis 19:4 - all Exodus 18:21 - men Job 22:30 - He shall deliver the island of the innocent Psalms 60:4 - because Psalms 94:16 - rise up Psalms 106:23 - stood Proverbs 28:12 - hidden Isaiah 9:17 - for every Isaiah 50:2 - when I came Isaiah 59:8 - no Isaiah 59:16 - he saw Jeremiah 2:29 - ye all have Jeremiah 7:28 - truth Jeremiah 8:6 - no Jeremiah 20:8 - I cried Jeremiah 44:15 - all the Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Ezekiel 33:29 - because Ezekiel 34:6 - and none Hosea 4:2 - swearing

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

Genesis 5:26
And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:27
And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundreth sixtie & nine yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enos.

Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo this onlye haue I founde, that God made man iust and right: but they sought many inuentions.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them:

Matthew 1:1
This is the booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.

1 Corinthians 11:7
A man ought not to couer his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glorie of God: But the woman is the glorie of the man:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,.... These are the words of the Lord, not to the prophet only, but to any other, who thought fit to look into the reasons of the Lord's dealing in a way of judgment with the people of the Jews; these he would have go through the whole city of Jerusalem, every street of it, and that backwards and forwards, not once only, but over and over again:

and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof; where there is commonly the greatest concourse of people; here he would have them look out diligently, observe and take cognizance of the persons they should meet with in such places:

if ye can find a man; that is, as the Targum adds, whose works are good, and as it is afterwards explained; for as yet the city was not desolate, so as that there was no man dwelling in it, as it was foretold it should be, Jeremiah 4:25. It is reported o of Diogenes, the Cynic philosopher, that he lighted up a candle in the daytime, and went through the streets with it; and, being asked the reason of it, said, I seek a man; that is, a man of virtue, honour, and honesty; by which he would be understood, that such were very rare: and so it follows,

if there be any that executeth judgment; in the public courts of judicature; or in private, between man and man:

that seeketh the truth; of doctrine and worship, that seeks to speak it, and maintain it; who is true to his word, and faithful to his promises; but was not one such to be found? were there not the Prophet Jeremiah, and Baruch, and some others? the answer of Kimchi's father is, that such were not to be found in the streets and broad places, where the direction is to seek, because such were hidden in their own houses for fear of wicked men; others think that the meaning is, that there were none to be found to make up the hedge, or stand in the gap for the land, and to intercede for them, as in Ezekiel 22:30, and others are of opinion that the Lord speaks of men in public offices, as judges, priests, and prophets, who were grown so corrupt, as that a good man was not to be found among them: but it seems rather to design the body of the people, and the sense to be, that an upright faithful man was rare to be found; and that, could there be found but a few of that sort, the Lord would spare the city for their sake, as in the case of Sodom, Genesis 18:32 and so it follows,

and I will pardon it; the city of Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it; so the Targum, Septuagint, and Arabic versions render it, "them".

o Laert. Vit. Philosoph. l. 6. p. 350.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The broad places - The open spaces next the gates, and other places of concourse.

A man - Or, anyone.

That executeth - “That” practiceth.

Truth - uprightness, probity (so in Jeremiah 5:3).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V

The prophet, having described the judgments impending over his

countrymen, enlarges on the corruptions which prevailed among

them. Their profession of religion was all false and

hypocritical, 1, 2.

Though corrected, they were not amended, but persisted in their

guilt, 3.

This was not the case with the low and ignorant only, 4;

but more egregiously so with those of the higher order, from

whose knowledge and opportunities better things might have been

expected, 5.

God therefore threatens them with the most cruel enemies, 6;

and appeals to themselves if they should be permitted to

practise such sins unpunished, 7-9.

He then commands their enemies to raze the walls of Jerusalem,

10;

that devoted city whose inhabitants added to all their other

sins the highest contempt of God's word and prophets, 11-13.

Wherefore his word, in the mouth of his prophet, shall be as

fire to consume them, 14;

the Chaldean forces shall cruelly addict them, 15-17;

and farther judgments await then as the consequence of their

apostasy and idolatry, 18, 19.

The chapter closes with a most melancholy picture of the moral

condition of the Jewish people at that period which immediately

preceded the Babylonish captivity, 20-31.

NOTES ON CHAP. V

Verse Jeremiah 5:1. Broad places — Market-places, and those where there was most public resort.

If ye can find a man — A certain philosopher went through the streets of Athens with a lighted lamp in his hand; and being asked what he sought, answered, "I am seeking to find a MAN." So in Jerusalem none was found, on the most diligent search, who acted worthy the character of a rational being.

I will pardon it. — I will spare the city for the sake of one righteous person. So at the intercession of Abraham, God would have spared Sodom if there had been ten righteous persons found in it; Genesis 18:26.