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A Dialogue about Righteousness: The Lord Speaks

“Wander through the streets of Jerusalem.

Look and investigate;[a]
search through her squares
    and see whether you find anyone—
even one person there—doing justice and seeking truth.
    Then I’ll forgive them.[b]
Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’
    still they are swearing falsely.”[c]

The Prophet Speaks

Lord, don’t your eyes look for truth?
    You struck[d] them, but they didn’t flinch.[e]
You brought them to an end,
    but they refused to receive discipline.
They made their faces harder than stone,
    and they refused to repent.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:1 Lit. know
  2. Jeremiah 5:1 Lit. her; i.e. Judah
  3. Jeremiah 5:2 Or swearing to false gods
  4. Jeremiah 5:3 I.e. in discipline
  5. Jeremiah 5:3 Or did not weaken