Jeremiah 5:4-6
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4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.(A)
5 Let me go to the rich[a]
and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.(B)
6 Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them;
a wolf from the desert shall destroy them.
A leopard is watching against their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many;
their faithlessness is great.(C)
Footnotes
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