Jeremiah 5:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ Lord, don’t your eyes look for truth?
    You struck down your people.
    But they didn’t feel any pain.
You crushed them.
    But they refused to be corrected.
They made their faces harder than stone.
    They refused to turn away from their sins.
⁴ I thought, “The people of
    Jerusalem are foolish.
They don’t know how the Lord wants them to live.
    They don’t know what their God requires of them.
⁵ So I will go to the leaders.
    I’ll speak to them.
They should know how the Lord wants them to live.
    They must know what their God requires of them.”
But all of them had broken off the yoke the Lord had put on them.
    They had torn off the ropes he had tied them up with.