Jeremiah 5:2-4

International Standard Version

² Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’
    still they are swearing falsely.”^[a]

³ Lord, don’t your eyes look for truth?
    You struck^[b] them, but they didn’t flinch.^[c]
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^[d] of their God.