Jeremiah 5:1–5

Not One Is Upright

5 “Go up and downs the streets of Jerusalem,

look around and consider,t

search through her squares.

If you can find but one personu

who deals honestlyv and seeks the truth,

I will forgivew this city.

2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’x

still they are swearing falsely.y”

3 Lord, do not your eyesz look for truth?

You strucka them, but they felt no pain;

you crushed them, but they refused correction.b

They made their faces harder than stonec

and refused to repent.d

4 I thought, “These are only the poor;

they are foolish,e

for they do not knowf the way of the Lord,

the requirements of their God.

5 So I will go to the leadersg

and speak to them;

surely they know the way of the Lord,

the requirements of their God.”

But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke

and torn off the bonds.h