22 Though you (A)pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

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22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
    grinding them like grain with a pestle,
    you will not remove their folly from them.

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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

Lord, do not your eyes(A) look for truth?
    You struck(B) them, but they felt no pain;
    you crushed them, but they refused correction.(C)
They made their faces harder than stone(D)
    and refused to repent.(E)

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