Jeremiah 5

Jeremiah 5:1

if ye can finde a man] Zeph. I. 12. If not ten in Sodom; how much is it stranger that not one in Jerusalem, a larger Citie? See the oecumenical contagion; and yet Gods marvelous mercie. So Gen. XVIII. 32.

Yet here, by a man, and any, we are not to tie it up to one individual person; No doubt more then one such there were: among those, chap. XXVI. 16, 24. and chap. XXXVI. 25. in Jehojakims time. And in Zedekiahs time, during the siege there were Ebedmelech, Jeremie himself, and others. The meaning must be, to understand scarce a man, very few, no considerable number, worth the speaking of; that a man might go to and fro for a long time in it, and yet not light on any man, one, or other, that were sincere and upright. See the like, Gen.

VI. 1. Psal. XII. 1. and XIV. 2, 3. Esay LXIV. 6, 7. Micah VII. 1, 2.

Jeremiah 5:2

The Lord liveth] Of swearing, see the Observations on Hos. IV. 15.

Jeremiah 5:4

These are poore] Poverty may put them upon evil courses.

a Lion] Nebuchadnezzar, and his forces.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go ye up] Gods Commission to the Chaldeans.

not a full end] 18. chap. IV. 27.

Jeremiah 5:12

not he] That thus threateneth, by Jeremie and some others.

Jeremiah 5:15

a Nation] The Chaldeans.

O house of Israel] Of Judah, who are of the linage of Israel.

Jeremiah 5:21

Which have eyes, and see not] Esay XLII. 20. Ezek. XII. 2. Acts XXVIII. 26, 27. See the Observations on Esay VI. 9.

Jeremiah 5:26

they catch men] As Jezabel set a trap, and a snare, to catch Naboth.

Jeremiah 5:28

they overpasse the deeds of the wicked] They surpasse them. Or, rather they passe by evils, they escape those evils wherewith others are surprised; as Psal. LXXIII. 5.

Jeremiah 5:31

and the Priests beare rule by their meanes] Priests; Or, Princes. Both banded against Gods true Prophets.