Sinai LogoSinai

Jeremiah 5:29

American Standard Version

Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Read all of Jeremiah 5Open in the Sinai app

Jeremiah 5:29 in other translations

“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:29 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 5:29 in context

  1. 27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
  2. 28They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
  3. 29Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  4. 30A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:
  5. 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?