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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 5:1 - 5:1
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Jer 5:1-31. The cause of the judgments to be inflicted is the universal corruption of the people.
a man - As the pious Josiah, Baruch, and Zephaniah lived in Jerusalem at that time, Jeremiah must here mean the mass of the people, the king, his counselors, the false prophets, and the priests, as distinguished from the faithful few, whom God had openly separated from the reprobate people; among the latter not even one just person was to be found (Isa 9:16) [Calvin]; the godly, moreover, were forbidden to intercede for them (Jer 7:16; compare Gen 18:23, etc.; Psa 12:1; Eze 22:30).
see ... know - look ... ascertain.
judgment - justice, righteousness.
pardon it - rather, her.