O Lord, do not (A)Your eyes look for [a]truth?
You have (B)smitten them,
But they did not [b]weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they (C)refused to take correction.
They have (D)made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:3 Lit faithfulness
  2. Jeremiah 5:3 Or become sick

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,
(A)Turned away in continual apostasy?
They (B)hold fast to deceit,
They (C)refuse to return.

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10 They have (A)turned back to the iniquities of their [a]ancestors who (B)refused to hear My words, and they (C)have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have (D)broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:10 Lit former fathers