Jeremiah 5:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

⁴ But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.

⁵ I will go therefore to the great men, and I will speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.