Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 5:29

Jeremiah chapter 5 · verse 29 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.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.

v.29This passage

v.30A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • Jeremiah 9:9

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

  • Jeremiah 5:9

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

  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.