Jeremiah 5:1-5

1“1Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, And look and take notice. And seek in her public squares, If you can 2find a person, 3If there is one who does justice, who seeks honesty, Then I will forgive 4her.2And 5although they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ Certainly they swear falsely.”3Lord, do 6Your eyes not look for honesty? You have 7struck them, But they did not 8weaken; You have consumed them, But they 9refused to accept discipline. They have 10made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.

4Then I said, “They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they 11do not know the way of the Lord Or the judgment of their God.5I will go to the great And speak to them, For 12they know the way of the Lord And the judgment of their God.” But together they too have 13broken the yoke And burst the restraints.