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O Jehovah, [a]do not thine eyes look upon [b]truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive [c]correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God: I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:3 Hebrew are not thine eyes upon.
  2. Jeremiah 5:3 Or, faithfulness
  3. Jeremiah 5:3 Or, instruction

Lord, do not your eyes(A) look for truth?
    You struck(B) them, but they felt no pain;
    you crushed them, but they refused correction.(C)
They made their faces harder than stone(D)
    and refused to repent.(E)
I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they are foolish,(F)
for they do not know(G) the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.
So I will go to the leaders(H)
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.”
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
    and torn off the bonds.(I)

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