Jeremiah 5:3-5

Complete Jewish Bible

³ Adonai, your eyes look for truth.
You struck them, but they weren’t affected;
you [nearly] destroyed them,
but they refused correction.
They made their faces harder than rock,
refusing to repent.

⁴ My reaction was, “These must be the poor,
the foolish, not knowing the way of Adonai
or the rulings of their God.
⁵ I will go to the prominent men,
and I will speak to them;
for they know the way of Adonai
and the rulings of their God.”
But these had completely broken the yoke
and torn the harness off.