Jer 5:4-5, 9:3 | ESV | STEP | Then I said , These are only the poor ; they have no sense ; for they do not know the way of the Lord , the justice of their God .

Jeremiah 5:4-5

4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
^afor they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
5 I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
^bBut they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 9:3

3 ^cThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong} in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
^eand they do not know me, declares the Lord.