Jeremiah 5:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Seek if ye can find a man. Since 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 (Isaiah 9:16) (Calvin); the godly, moreover, were forbidden to intercede for them (Jeremiah 7:16: cf. Genesis 18:23, etc.; Psalms 12:1; Ezekiel 22:30).

See and know - look and ascertain. Executeth judgment - justice, righteousness.

And I will pardon it - rather, her.

Jeremiah 5:1

1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.