Jeremiah 5:29 · KJV
“Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?”
— Jeremiah 5:29
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; {A wonderful...: or, Astonishment and filthiness}
Jeremiah 5 — Context
As a cage is full of birds, so {are} their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. {cage: or, coop}
28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; {A wonderful...: or, Astonishment and filthiness}
31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love {to have it} so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? {bear...: or, take into their hands}
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. {sabaoth: Heb. hosts}
Jeremiah 9:9
Shall I not visit them for these {things}? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?