Jeremiah 5:3

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Summary

O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Are not thine

Thou hast stricken

They have made

General references

Luke 8:6

Bible References

Are not thine

great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.”

The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s

throne is in heaven;

His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.

Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.

Thou hast stricken

“In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction;

truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.

“They struck me, but I did not become ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink.”

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

So He poured out on him the heat of His anger
And the fierceness of battle;
And it set him aflame all around,
Yet he did not recognize it;
And it burned him, but he

paid no attention.

“In your filthiness is lewdness.
Because I would have cleansed you,
Yet you are not clean,
You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again
Until I have

spent My wrath on you.

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
The tyrannical city!

They have made

A wicked man

displays a bold face,

But as for the upright, he makes his way sure.

“Because I know that you are

obstinate,

And your neck is an iron sinew
And your forehead bronze,

yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.

But they refused to pay attention and

turned a stubborn shoulder and

stopped their ears from hearing.

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

General references

On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.”

‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

“Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’

Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.