Jeremiah 3:5
New International Version
will you always be angry? Will your wrath continue forever?’ This is how you talk, but you do all the evil you can.”

New Living Translation
Surely you won’t be angry forever! Surely you can forget about it!’ So you talk, but you keep on doing all the evil you can.”

English Standard Version
will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.”

Berean Standard Bible
Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

King James Bible
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

New King James Version
Will He remain angry forever? Will He keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, As you were able.”

New American Standard Bible
‘Will He be angry forever, Or keep His anger to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your own way.”

NASB 1995
‘Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your way.”

NASB 1977
‘Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your way.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Will He be angry forever? Will He keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your way.”

Amplified Bible
‘Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, And you have done all the evil things [you could], And you have had your way and have carried out your wickedness.”

Christian Standard Bible
Will he bear a grudge forever? Will he be endlessly infuriated? ” This is what you have said, but you have done the evil things you are capable of.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Will He bear a grudge forever? Will He be endlessly infuriated?” This is what you have said, but you have done the evil things you are capable of.

American Standard Version
Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Will it be kept for eternity, or will it be kept for eternities? Behold, you have spoken and you have done evil and you have been empowered

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Will God's anger continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.

Contemporary English Version
you beg me to stop being angry, but you won't stop sinning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue until the end? Behold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been able.

English Revised Version
Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He won't hold a grudge forever. He won't always be angry.' You have said and done all the evil things that you could."

Good News Translation
You won't always be angry; you won't be mad at me forever.' Israel, that is what you said, but you did all the evil you could."

International Standard Version
will he hold on to his anger forever, will he persist in his wrath to the end?' Look, you have spoken and done evil things, and you have succeeded in it."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Will He bear grudge for ever? Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, And hast had thy way.

Literal Standard Version
Does He keep for all time? Watch forever? Behold, you have spoken these things, | And you do evil, and prevail.”

Majority Standard Bible
Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

New American Bible
Will he keep his wrath forever, will he hold his grudge to the end?” This is what you say; yet you do all the evil you can.

NET Bible
You will not always be angry with me, will you? You will not be mad at me forever, will you?' That is what you say, but you continually do all the evil that you can."

New Revised Standard Version
will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?” This is how you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.

New Heart English Bible
"'Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Look, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."

Webster's Bible Translation
Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldst.

World English Bible
“‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

Young's Literal Translation
Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?' Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.

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Context
The Wages of the Harlot
4Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth. 5Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

Cross References
Psalm 103:9
He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

Isaiah 57:16
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

Jeremiah 3:12
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: 'Return, O faithless Israel,' declares the LORD. 'I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,' declares the LORD. 'I will not be angry forever.


Treasury of Scripture

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.

he reserve

Jeremiah 3:12
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

Psalm 77:7-9
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? …

Psalm 85:5
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

thou hast spoken

Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

Micah 2:1
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

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Jeremiah 3
1. God's great mercy to Judah the polluted land
6. Judah is worse than Israel
12. The promises of the gospel to the penitent
20. Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins














(5) Will he reserve his anger for ever . . .?--The questions were such as might well be asked in the first burst of sorrowing though superficial repentance. The implied answer was in the negative, "No, He will not keep His anger to the end." Yet, so far, facts were against that yearning hope. It will be noted that the word "anger" is not in the Hebrew. It is, however, rightly inserted, after the precedent of Nahum 1:2; Psalm 103:9. The words seem, indeed, almost a quotation from the latter, and Jeremiah 3:4-5 may probably be looked on as cited from the penitential litanies in which the people had joined, and which were too soon followed by a return to the old evils (Jeremiah 2:1-13).

Thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.--i.e., resolutely and obstinately. That pathetic appeal to the mercy and love of Jehovah was followed by no amendment, but by a return to evil. Here the first prophecy, as reproduced from memory, ends, and the next verse begins a separate discourse.

Verse 5. - Will he reserve? rather, Will he retain, etc.? It is a continuation of the supposed address of Judah. To the end? rather, everlastingly? Behold, thou hast spoken, etc.; rather, Behold, thou hast spoken it, but hast done these evil things, and hast prevailed (i.e. succeeded). The substance of the two verses (4 and 5) is well given by Ewald: "Unhappily her power truly to return has been exhausted, as not long ago after fresh signs of the Divine displeasure she prayed in beautiful language to [Jehovah] for new favor and abatement of the old sufferings, [but] she immediately fell again into her sin, and carried it out with cool determination."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Will He be angry
הֲיִנְטֹ֣ר (hă·yin·ṭōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5201: To guard, to cherish

forever?
לְעוֹלָ֔ם (lə·‘ō·w·lām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

Will He be indignant
יִשְׁמֹ֖ר (yiš·mōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

to the end?’
לָנֶ֑צַח (lā·ne·ṣaḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5331: Eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity

This
הִנֵּ֥ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

you
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0
Strong's Hebrew

have spoken,
דִבַּ֛רְתְּ‪‬ (ḏib·bart)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

but you keep doing
וַתַּעֲשִׂ֥י (wat·ta·‘ă·śî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

all the evil
הָרָע֖וֹת (hā·rā·‘ō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

you can.”
וַתּוּכָֽל׃ (wat·tū·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3201: To be able, have power


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