Jeremiah 5:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Do your eyes not search for truth, O Lord?
    When you struck them, they felt no anguish;
    when you brought them down, they refused correction.
They have made their faces harder than stone
    and refused to repent.
⁴ Then I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they tend to act foolishly.
For they do not know the way of the Lord
    or the ordinances of their God.
⁵ Therefore, I will go to their leaders
    and speak to them.
Surely they will know the way of the Lord
    and their responsibilities to their God.”
But those, too, had broken the yoke
    and torn away from their bonds.