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Jeremiah 5:4-5
New English Translation
Jeremiah 5:4-5
New English Translation
4 I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way.[a]
They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands.[b]
They do not know what their God requires of them.[c]
5 I will go to the leaders[d]
and speak with them.
Surely they know what the Lord demands.[e]
Surely they know what their God requires of them.”[f]
Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority
and refuse to submit to him.[g]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:4 tn Heb “Surely they are poor.” The translation is intended to make clear the explicit contrasts and qualifications drawn in this verse and the next.
- Jeremiah 5:4 tn Heb “the way of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 5:4 tn Heb “the judgment [or ordinance] of their God.”
- Jeremiah 5:5 tn Or “people in power”; Heb “the great ones.”
- Jeremiah 5:5 tn Heb “the way of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 5:5 tn Heb “the judgment [or ordinance] of their God.”
- Jeremiah 5:5 tn Heb “have broken the yoke and torn off the yoke ropes.” Cf. Jer 2:20 and the note there.
Jeremiah 5:4-5
New International Version
Jeremiah 5:4-5
New International Version
4 I thought, “These are only the poor;
they are foolish,(A)
for they do not know(B) the way of the Lord,
the requirements of their God.
5 So I will go to the leaders(C)
and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
the requirements of their God.”
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
and torn off the bonds.(D)
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