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Jeremiah 5:1

Jeremiah 5:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Run ye: 2 Chronicles 16:9; Daniel 12:4; Joel 2:9; Amos 8:12; Zechariah 2:4

seek: Proverbs 8:3; Song of Solomon 3:2; Luke 14:21

if ye can: 1 Kings 19:10; Proverbs 20:6; Ezekiel 22:30

if there: Genesis 18:23-32; Psalms 12:1, Psalms 14:3, Psalms 53:2-4; Micah 7:1-2

that seeketh: Proverbs 2:4-6, Proverbs 23:23; Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:14-15; 2 Thessalonians 2:10

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