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I will go to the leaders[a]
and speak with them.
Surely they know what the Lord demands.[b]
Surely they know what their God requires of them.”[c]
Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority
and refuse to submit to him.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:5 tn Or “people in power”; Heb “the great ones.”
  2. Jeremiah 5:5 tn Heb “the way of the Lord.”
  3. Jeremiah 5:5 tn Heb “the judgment [or ordinance] of their God.”
  4. Jeremiah 5:5 tn Heb “have broken the yoke and torn off the yoke ropes.” Cf. Jer 2:20 and the note there.

So I will go to the leaders(A)
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.”
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
    and torn off the bonds.(B)

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