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Jeremiah 5:1

Run ye to and fro The prophet challenges his hearers to find a single righteous man by a thorough and extensive search. Cp. Genesis 18:23-33. The little good that was left in the land was driven out of sight by the prevailing wickedness, and exercised no appreciable effect upon it.

broad places the market-places and other chief places of resort.

truth mg. faithfulness, and so in Jeremiah 5:3; by no means confined to truth in words. The word is the same as that rendered "faithfully," e.g. 2 Kings 12:15; 2 Kings 22:7. Jeremiah lays special stress on this quality, which with him "unites in itself faithfulness towards God (constancy), towards man (integrity), towards oneself (genuineness)," Co. Cp. Hosea 4:1.

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