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Jer. 5:1 What Abraham discovered when pleading for Sodom (Gen. 18:23–32), Jeremiah discovers now. There is not a single just, faithful, and covenant-keeping person in Jerusalem for whose sake God would pardon the whole people.
Jer. 5:3 struck them down, but they felt no anguish. God’s discipline has not led to repentance; the people have merely become more hardened in their sin (see 2:14–19, 30; Amos 4:6–13).
Jer. 5:7 God cannot find a reason to pardon (see v. 1), for the Israelites swear by those who are no gods. They have committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores even though their divine Husband has met all their real needs (2:1–8; Hos. 2:1–13). This imagery depicts spiritual adultery committed through physically taking part in the pagan fertility rites of Baal worship (Jer. 2:8).
Jer. 5:14 God of hosts is a title often used to describe God as a judge (Isa. 3:1; 5:16). Jeremiah’s true and rejected words become a fire that will consume the people. God will thus use him to judge the nation (Jer. 1:9–10).
Jer. 5:15 The destroyer, Babylon, was indeed ancient and famous for literature, religion, and for its inclination to go to war.
Jer. 5:18–19 Israel’s punishment will be for disciplinary purposes, to bring them to their senses (see Lev. 26:14–20) and to educate them.
Jer. 5:23 Rather than a circumcised heart (4:4), the people have a stubborn and rebellious heart (5:3–5) that turns away from God (2:4–5), not toward him (3:11–14).
Jer. 5:25 Your iniquities have turned these away refers to the rain in v. 24 that had not come. The Israelites’ sin had led to a change in weather and a loss of crops, through God’s judgment. good. The blessings of v. 24 could have been theirs.
Jer. 5:26–29 Wicked men grow fat and sleek through deeds of evil. The fatherless had no adult male in the family to protect and provide for them (see note on 7:6). The rulers did not protect their rights or the rights of the needy (see Isa. 1:16–23; Amos 2:6–7; 4:1–5). God must punish such oppression, just as he must punish constant spiritual and physical adultery (Jer. 5:9).
Jer. 5:30–31 The prophets and priests conspire to lie and oppress, rather than to teach God’s word and rule justly (2:8; 6:13; 14:14; 20:1–6). my people love to have it so. They crave such false teaching (compare 2 Tim. 4:3–4; 2 Pet. 2:1–3), but it will destroy them when the end comes (2 Kings 17:7–23; Jer. 39:1–10).
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