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Jeremiah 5:3

Jeremiah 5:3
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth?.... That is, thou hast no regard to such deceitful men, such hypocritical worshippers and formal professors, but to true and upright men: God looks not at…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 5:1-9

Here is, I. A challenge to produce any one right honest man, or at least any considerable number of such, in Jerusalem, Jer 5:1. Jerusalem had become like the old world, in which all flesh had…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

do not thine eyes look upon, etc.] Dost thou not look for faithfulness in men?

they have made their faces harder than a rock Cp. Eze 3:7 ff.