Jeremiah 5:3-6

New King James Version

³ O Lord, are not ^(A)Your eyes on the truth?
You have ^(B)stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But ^(C)they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.

⁴ Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor.
They are foolish;
For ^(D)they do not know the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.
⁵ I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For ^(E)they have known the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.”

But these have altogether ^(F)broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
⁶ Therefore ^(G)a lion from the forest shall slay them,
^(H)A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
^(I)A leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many;
Their backslidings have increased.