Jeremiah 5:3-5

New Century Version

³ Lord, don’t you look for truth in people?
You struck 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
    and what their God wants them to do.
⁵ So I will go to the leaders of Judah
    and talk to them.
Surely they understand the way of the Lord
    and know what God wants them to do.”
But even the leaders had all joined together to break away from the Lord;
    they had broken their ties with him.