Jeremiah 5:3-5

International Children’s Bible

³ Lord, don’t you look for truth in people?
You hit the people of Judah.
    But they didn’t feel any pain.
You crushed them,
    but they refused to learn what is right.
They became more stubborn than a rock.
    They refused to turn back to God.
⁴ But I thought,
    “These are only the poor, foolish people.
They have not learned the way of the Lord.
    They do not know what their God wants them to do.
⁵ So I will go to the leaders of Judah.
    I will talk to them.
Surely they understand the way of the Lord.
    They know what God wants them to do.”
But the leaders had all joined together to break away from the Lord.
    They broke their ties with him.