1 People of Jerusalem, run through your streets!Look around! See for yourselves!Search the marketplaces!Can you find one personwho does what is rightand tries to be faithful to God?If you can, the Lord will forgive Jerusalem.
2 Even though you claim to worship the Lord,you do not mean what you say.
3 Surely the Lord looks for faithfulness.He struck you, but you paid no attention;he crushed you, but you refused to learn.You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.
4 Then I thought, “These are only the poor and ignorant.They behave foolishly;they don't know what their God requires,what the Lord wants them to do.
5 I will go to the people in powerand talk with them.Surely they know what their God requires,what the Lord wants them to do.”But all of them have rejected the Lord's authorityand refuse to obey him.