“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.
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Jeremiah 5:1 in context
Jeremiah 5:1–4
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“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.
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Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
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O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
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Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God.
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