Jeremiah 5:3-6
International Standard Version
The Prophet Speaks
3 Lord, don’t your eyes look for truth?
You struck[a] them, but they didn’t flinch.[b]
You brought them to an end,
but they refused to receive discipline.
They made their faces harder than stone,
and they refused to repent.
4 Then I said, “These are only the poor,
they’re foolish,
for they don’t know the Lord’s way,
the requirement[c] of their God.
5 Let me go to the leaders[d] and speak to them.
For they know the Lord’s way,
the requirement[e] of their God.”
The Lord Answers
“But they, all together, have broken the yoke
and torn off the restraints.[f]
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them,
a wolf from the desert will devastate them.
A leopard is watching their towns,
and everyone who goes out of them
will be torn to pieces.
For their transgressions are many,
and their apostasies numerous.
Notas al pie
- Jeremiah 5:3 I.e. in discipline
- Jeremiah 5:3 Or did not weaken
- Jeremiah 5:4 Or judgments
- Jeremiah 5:5 Lit. great ones
- Jeremiah 5:5 Or judgments
- Jeremiah 5:5 Or cords
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