Jeremiah 5:2-4 New English Translation (NET)

2. These people make promises in the name of the Lord.But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie.”

3. Lord, I know you look for faithfulness.But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse.Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected.They have become as hardheaded as a rock.They refuse to change their ways.

4. I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way.They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands.They do not know what their God requires of them.

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