Jeremiah 5:3-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness?
You struck them,
but they felt no pain.
You crushed them,
but they refused discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock
and refused to repent.
⁴ Then I said:
    These are only the poor.
    They are foolish,
    because they do not know the way of the Lord
    and the just verdict of their God.
⁵     I will go to the great men and speak to them.
    Certainly they know the way of the Lord,
    the just verdict of their God.
    But all of them together have broken the yoke
    and have torn off their chains.
⁶     That is why a lion from the forest will strike them.
    A wolf from the desert will attack them,
    and a leopard is watching their cities.
    Everyone who comes out of them will be torn to pieces
    because their rebellions are so many,
    and their unfaithfulness is so great.