Jeremiah 5:1-5

1“1Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And look now and take note. And seek in her open squares, If you can 2find a man, 3If there is one who does justice, who seeks 4truth, Then I will pardon her.2And 5although they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ Surely they swear falsely.”3O Lord, do not 6Your eyes look for 7truth? You have 8smitten them, But they did not 9weaken; You have consumed them, But they 10refused to take correction. They have 11made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.

4Then I said, “They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they 12do not know the way of the Lord Or the ordinance of their God.5I will go to the great And will speak to them, For 13they know the way of the Lord And the ordinance of their God.” But they too, with one accord, have 14broken the yoke And burst the bonds.