Jeremiah 5

Jeremiah 5:3

Thou requirest and regardest upright dealing; but they, under all thy lesser judgments, have stupified themselves, and become more and more stubborn and rebellious

Jeremiah 5:12-14

They have contradicted the faithful messages of God by his prophets, and pretended that they spoke of themselves, in foretelling calamities; and that their words were but a mere puff of noisy wind, which should neither profit nor hurt any body, unless they should be fulfilled on themselves. Therefore God’s words by Jeremiah shall be accomplished in the fearful destruction of them and their country

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets fit their predictions to the ambitious humours of the priests and princes; the people delight to be flattered with promises of prosperity: and what can these things end in, but ruin to you all? ~~~~~

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. V.—Terrible and manifold are the corruptions of apostate nations and churches. One sin introduces another, till all ranks become absolute monsters in guilt. And alas! great men, fattened by prosperity or power, are often the most active patterns in, or promoters of, wickedness. Very grating to multitudes of hearers are the faithful messages of God’s ministers. But God will make them to know at last whose words shall stand, whether his or theirs. When professors of the true religion live destitute of the fear of God, nothing is so horrible or unnatural but they will commit it. And it is dreadful when men have carried their sins to such a height that God cannot longer forbear punishing them without violating the honour of his perfections. Nothing more hastens things to this crisis than combinations of ministers and magistrates to support one another in wickedness, and corrupt the nation between them