UYeremiya 5:3

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

3 Yehova, amehlo akho akajonge ekunyaniseni, yini na? Uyababetha, abevi ntlungu; uyabagqibela kuphele, abavumi ukuthethiswa; babenza ngwanyalala ubuso babo ngaphezu kwengxondorha, abavumi ukubuya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

are not thine: Jeremiah 32:19, 2 Chronicles 16:9, Psalms 11:4-7, Psalms 51:6, Proverbs 22:12, Romans 2:2

thou hast stricken: Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 7:28, 2 Chronicles 28:22, Proverbs 23:35, Proverbs 27:22, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6, Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 42:25, Ezekiel 24:13, Zephaniah 3:1, Zephaniah 3:2, Zephaniah 3:7

they have made: Proverbs 21:29, Isaiah 48:4, Ezekiel 3:7-9, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, Romans 2:4, Romans 2:5, Hebrews 12:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:34 - General Exodus 7:23 - neither Leviticus 26:23 - General Deuteronomy 21:18 - will not Judges 4:1 - did evil 1 Kings 21:1 - after 2 Kings 1:11 - Again Job 41:24 - as hard Proverbs 13:18 - Poverty Proverbs 15:32 - instruction Isaiah 24:2 - as with the people Isaiah 26:11 - will Isaiah 57:10 - therefore Isaiah 57:17 - and he Isaiah 59:12 - our transgressions Jeremiah 3:3 - a whore's Jeremiah 8:5 - they refuse Jeremiah 13:23 - Ethiopian Jeremiah 15:7 - since Jeremiah 31:18 - Thou hast Jeremiah 32:3 - Zedekiah Jeremiah 35:13 - Will Jeremiah 36:24 - nor rent Jeremiah 38:21 - if thou Lamentations 1:5 - for Ezekiel 2:4 - they Ezekiel 5:6 - for they Ezekiel 22:24 - General Ezekiel 24:12 - her great Daniel 9:13 - made we not our prayer before Hosea 4:6 - for Hosea 5:2 - a rebuker Amos 4:6 - yet Amos 4:9 - yet Amos 6:12 - horses Haggai 2:17 - yet Luke 7:32 - are Luke 8:6 - General Luke 15:15 - he went Luke 23:40 - seeing Revelation 9:20 - yet Revelation 16:9 - blasphemed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 outward appearances, but to the heart; he can see through all masks and vizards, there is no deceiving of him; he desires truth in the inward parts, and his eyes are on that; he has respect to men that have the truth of grace, the root of the matter in them, oil in their vessels, together with the lamps of an outward profession: his eyes are on such as have a true inward sense of sin, a genuine repentance for it, and that make a sincere, hearty, and ingenuous confession of it; to this man he looks, that is poor, and of a contrite spirit; he is nigh to such, and dwells with them; when he has no regard to the sad countenances and disfigured faces of Pharisees; to the tears of a profane Esau, or to the external humiliations and concessions of a wicked Pharaoh: his eyes are upon the internal graces of his own Spirit; to love, that is in deed and in truth; to hope, that is without dissimulation, and to faith unfeigned: and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it, "thine eyes are unto faith"; or, respect faith p; the faith of Christians, as Jerom interprets it. Faith is a grace well pleasing to God, and everything that is done in faith is so, and nothing else; it is a grace that gives glory to God, and on which he has put much honour, in making it the receiver of all the blessings of grace, and connecting salvation with it; he has so great a regard for it, that whatever it asks it has of him. In short, the sense is, that the eyes of the Lord, of his love, favour, good will, and delight, are upon such whose hearts are upright towards him; who draw nigh to him in truth, worship him in spirit and in truth, and are hearty to his cause and interest, and faithful to his word and ordinances; who are lovers of truth; of Christ, who is the truth itself; and of his Gospel, the word of truth, and the doctrines of it; see 1 Samuel 16:7.

Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; that is, the Lord had courted and chastised them with afflictive providences; he had brought his judgments upon them, and had smitten them with the sword, or famine, or pestilence, or some such sore calamity, and yet it had not brought them to a sense of their sin, and to a godly sorrow for it:

thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; God had by his judgments consumed or swept away many of them, yet the rest did not take warning thereby, but went on in their sins; or they were brought near to consumption, as Kimchi interprets it; nevertheless remained obstinate and incorrigible, refused to receive any correction or instruction by such providences:

they have made their faces harder than a rock; becoming more impudent in sinning, not blushing at, or being ashamed for it, and unmoved by judgments and chastising providence:

they have refused to return; to the Lord, and to his worship, from which they revolted; or by repentance, and unto faith and truth, from which they had swerved.

p עיניך הלוא לאמונה "oculi tui respiciunt fidem", V. L. "ad fidem" Justius & Tremellius, Cocceius, and some in Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.