3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They have made their faces harder than stone
and refused to repent.
4Then I said, “They are only the poor;
they have played the fool,
for they do not know the way of the LORD,
the justice of their God.
5I will go to the powerful
and speak to them.
Surely they know the way of the LORD,
the justice of their God.”
But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke
and torn off the chains.
— Jeremiah 5:3-5