1 The Lord says, “Walk up and down the streets of Jerusalem.Look around and discover these things.Search the public squares of the city.If you can find one person who does honest things,who searches for the truth,I will forgive this city.
2 Although the people say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’they don’t really mean it.”
3 Lord, don’t you look for truth in people?You struck the people of Judah,but they didn’t feel any pain.You crushed them,but they refused to learn what is right.They became more stubborn than a rock;they refused to turn back to God.
4 But I thought,“These are only the poor, foolish people.They have not learned the way of the Lordand what their God wants them to do.
5 So I will go to the leaders of Judahand talk to them.Surely they understand the way of the Lordand know what God wants them to do.”But even the leaders had all joined together to break away from the Lord;they had broken their ties with him.