Jer 5:1-5 | NASB2020 | STEP | “ Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem , And look and take notice . And seek in her public squares , If you can find a person , If there is one who does justice , who seeks honesty , Then I will forgive her.

Jeremiah 5:1-5

Jerusalem’s Godlessness

1 “ ^aRoam about through the streets of Jerusalem,
And look and take notice.
And seek in her public squares,
If you can ^bfind a person,
^cIf there is one who does justice, who seeks honesty,
Then I will forgive ^{▼▼I.e., Jerusalem}her.
2 “And ^ealthough they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’
Certainly they swear falsely.”
3 Lord, do ^fYour eyes not look for honesty?
You have ^gstruck them,
But they did not ^{▼▼Or become sick}weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they ⁱrefused to accept discipline.
They have ^jmade their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.

4 Then I said, “They are only the poor,
They are foolish;
For they ^kdo not know the way of the Lord
Or the judgment of their God.
5 “I will go to the great
And speak to them,
For ^lthey know the way of the Lord
And the judgment of their God.”
But together they too have ^mbroken the yoke
And burst the restraints.