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Although the people say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’
    they don’t really mean it.”

Lord, don’t you look for truth in people?
You struck the people of Judah,
    but they didn’t feel any pain.
You crushed them,
    but they refused to learn what is right.
They became more stubborn than a rock;
    they refused to turn back to God.
But I thought,
    “These are only the poor, foolish people.
They have not learned the way of the Lord
    and what their God wants them to do.

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