Jeremiah 5:3-6

English Standard Version

³O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
^(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
^(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

⁴Then I said, “These are only the poor;
    they have no sense;
^(C)for they do not know the way of the Lord,
    the justice of their God.
⁵I will go to the great
    and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
    the justice of their God.”
^(D)But they all alike had broken the yoke;
    they had burst the bonds.

⁶Therefore ^(E)a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
    a ^(F)wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^(G)A leopard is watching their cities;
    everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
    their ^(H)apostasies are great.