Jeremiah 5:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² Even though they say, “As the Lord lives,”
    they are in fact swearing falsely.
³ Do your eyes not search for truth, O Lord?
    When you struck them, they felt no anguish;
    when you brought them down, they refused correction.
They have made their faces harder than stone
    and refused to repent.
⁴ Then I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they tend to act foolishly.
For they do not know the way of the Lord
    or the ordinances of their God.