Jeremiah 5:3 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

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ASV

O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were 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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Cyprian

Treatise V. An Address to Demetrianus 7 (258)

Disasters occur either to discipline the obstinate people or punish evil people. The same God declares in the Holy Scriptures, "I have struck your children in vain. They have not received correction." The prophet devoted and dedicated to God answers these words in the same way and says, "You struck them, but they have not grieved. You scourged them, but they have refused to receive correction." See, God inflicts stripes, and there is no fear of God.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Upon the truth - God looks to the “faith,” the upright purpose of the heart, and without it the nominal fealty of an oath is an abomination.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1585: “Truthfulness” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1881)

THE allusion is not to doctrinal Truth of God, or truth in the abstract, but to practical truth as it should exist in the hearts and lives of men. It might be read, "Lord, are not Your eyes upon truthfulness?" Or, "upon faithfulness?" The Lord bade them produce a single truthful man in all Jerusalem and Jeremiah answers that if truth were to be found, the Lord Himself best knew where it was, for His eyes were always upon it.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יְהֹוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
עֵינֶיךָ֮	'ei.nei.Kha	[are] eyes your	H5869 →
הֲל֣וֹא	ha.Lo'	¿ not	H3808 →
לֶאֱמוּנָה֒	le.'e.mu.Nah	to faithfulness	H530 →
הִכִּ֤יתָה	hi.Ki.tah	you struck	H5221 →
אֹתָם֙	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
וְֽלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
חָ֔לוּ	Cha.lu	they writhed	H2342 →
כִּלִּיתָ֕ם	ki.li.Tam	you brought to an end them	H3615 →
מֵאֲנ֖וּ	me.'a.Nu	they refused	H3985 →
קַ֣חַת	Ka.chat	to accept	H3947 →
מוּסָ֑ר	mu.Sar	correction	H4148 →
חִזְּק֤וּ	chi.ze.Ku	they made strong	H2388 →
פְנֵיהֶם֙	fe.nei.Hem	faces their	H6440 →
מִסֶּ֔לַע	mi.Se.la'	more than rock	H5553 →
מֵאֲנ֖וּ	me.'a.Nu	they refused	H3985 →
לָשֽׁוּב׃	la.Shuv	to return	H7725 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in…
leads to
- 1 Peter 3:12
  For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
- Proverbs 15:3
  The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
- Jeremiah 16:17
  For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
- Proverbs 5:21
  For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- Psalms 34:15
  The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
Through
Jeremiah 2:30
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
leads to
- Isaiah 1:5
  Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Nehemiah 9:26
  But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Through
Zephaniah 3:7
I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their…
leads to
- Zephaniah 3:2
  She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Jeremiah