Jeremiah 5:29
Good News Translation
"But I, the LORD, will punish them for these things; I will take revenge on this nation.

New Revised Standard Version
Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD, and shall I not bring retribution on a nation such as this?

Contemporary English Version
You need to be punished, and so I will take revenge.

New American Bible
Shall I not punish these things?—oracle of the LORD; on a nation such as this shall I not take vengeance?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

See on ver.

Jeremiah 5:9 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

Jeremiah 9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul be revenged on such a nation?

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Context
Judgment Proclaimed
28They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor. 29Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?30Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.…
Cross References
Isaiah 57:6
In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and thou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice. Shall I not be angry at these things?

Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.

Jeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

Jeremiah 9:9
Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul be revenged on such a nation?

Malachi 3:5
And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 5:28
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