Jeremiah 5:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the [a]truth? thou hast [b]stricken them, but they have not sorrowed: thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a stone, and have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely they are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the [c]great men, and will speak unto them: for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
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- Jeremiah 5:3 Dost not thou love uprightness and faithful dealing?
- Jeremiah 5:3 Thou hast ofttimes punished them, but all is in vain, Isa. 9:13.
- Jeremiah 5:5 He speaketh this to the reproach of them which should govern and teach others, and yet are farther out of the way than the simple people.
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