Jeremiah 5:4
“Therefore I said, Surely these are poore, they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.”
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Jeremiah 5:4 Context
2And though they say, The Lord liueth, surely they sweare falsely. 3O Lord, are not thine eyes vpon the trueth? thou hast stricken them, but they haue not grieued; thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a rocke, they haue refused to returne. 4Therefore I said, Surely these are poore, they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God. 5I wil get me vnto the great men, and will speake vnto them, for they haue knowen the way of the Lord, and the iudgement of their God: but these haue altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bondes. 6Wherfore a lyon out of the forrest shall slay them, and a wolfe of the euenings shall spoile them, a leopard shall watch ouer their cities: euery one that goeth out thence shalbe torne in pieces, because their transgressions are many, and their backeslidings are increased.
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Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.
- King James Version
Then I said, "They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD {Or} the ordinance of their God.
- New American Standard Version (1995)