Jeremiah 5:3-6
Legacy Standard Bible
3 O Yahweh, do not (A)Your eyes look for faithfulness?
You have (B)struck them,
But they did not [a]weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they (C)refused to receive discipline.
They have (D)made their faces stronger than rock;
They have refused to [b]repent.
4 Then I said, “They are only the poor;
They are foolish;
For they (E)do not know the way of Yahweh
Or the legal judgment of their God.
5 Let me go to the great
And let me speak to them,
For (F)they know the way of Yahweh
And the legal judgment of their God.”
But they too, altogether, have (G)broken the yoke
And torn apart the bonds.
6 Therefore (H)a lion from the forest will strike them down;
A (I)wolf of the deserts will devastate them;
A (J)leopard is watching their cities.
Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces
Because their (K)transgressions are many;
Their acts of faithlessness are mighty.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:3 Or become sick
- Jeremiah 5:3 Lit return
Jeremiah 5:3-6
New American Standard Bible 1995
3 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.
4 Then I said, “They are only the poor,
They are foolish;
For they (E)do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God.
5 “I will go to the great
And will speak to them,
For (F)they know the way of the Lord
And the ordinance of their God.”
But they too, with one accord, have (G)broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
6 Therefore (H)a lion from the forest will slay them,
A (I)wolf of the deserts will destroy them,
A (J)leopard is watching their cities.
Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces,
Because their (K)transgressions are many,
Their apostasies are numerous.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:3 Lit faithfulness
- Jeremiah 5:3 Or become sick
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