Add parallel Print Page Options

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to turn back.

Then I said, “These are only the poor,
    they have no sense;
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.
Let me go to the rich[a]
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke,
    they had burst the bonds.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:5 Or the great

Bible Gateway Recommends

NRSV Catholic Prayer Bible, Lectio Divina Edition
NRSV Catholic Prayer Bible, Lectio Divina Edition
Retail: $44.95
Our Price: $37.49
Save: $7.46 (17%)
4.5 of 5.0 stars
NRSV Catholic Edition Bible, Eucalyptus--hardcover
NRSV Catholic Edition Bible, Eucalyptus--hardcover
Retail: $29.99
Our Price: $19.99
Save: $10.00 (33%)
NRSVue, Holy Bible, Leathersoft, Black, Comfort Print
NRSVue, Holy Bible, Leathersoft, Black, Comfort Print
Retail: $49.99
Our Price: $25.99
Save: $24.00 (48%)