Jeremiah 5:7
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- How shall
- Jeremiah 3:19; Hosea 11:8; Matthew 23:37, 38
- sworn by
- Jeremiah 12:16; Joshua 23:7; Hosea 4:15; Amos 8:14; Zephaniah 1:5
- no gods
- Jeremiah 2:11; Deuteronomy 32:21; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Galatians 4:8
- I had fed
- Jeremiah 2:31; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel 16:49, 50; Hosea 13:6; James 5:1–5
- they then
- Jeremiah 9:2; Jeremiah 13:27; Jeremiah 23:10; Jeremiah 29:22, 23; Leviticus 20:10; Psalm 50:18; Ezekiel 22:11; Hosea 4:2, 13, 14; Hosea 7:4; Malachi 3:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Hebrews 13:4; James 4:4
- by troops
- Numbers 25:1–3