Jeremiah 5:3-5

Living Bible

³ O Lord, you are looking for faithfulness. You have tried to get them to be honest, for you have punished them, but they won’t change! You have destroyed them, but they refuse to turn from their sins. They are determined, with faces hard as rock, not to repent.

⁴ Then I said, “But what can we expect from the poor and ignorant? They don’t know the ways of God. How can they obey him?”

⁵ I will go now to their leaders, the men of importance, and speak to them, for they know the ways of the Lord and the judgment that follows sin. But they too had utterly rejected their God.