Jeremiah 5:3-9 O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

JPS_ASV_Byz⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. ⁴ And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God; ⁵ I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the ordinance of their God.' But these had altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bands. ⁶ Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, a leopard watcheth over their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased. ⁷ Wherefore should I pardon thee? The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses. ⁸ They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife. ⁹ Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?