1 ‘Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem,look around and consider,search through her squares.If you can find but one personwho deals honestly and seeks the truth,I will forgive this city.
2 Although they say, “As surely as the Lord lives,”still they are swearing falsely.’
3 Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?You struck them, but they felt no pain;you crushed them but they refused correction.They made their faces harder than stoneand refused to repent.
4 I thought, ‘These are only the poor;they are foolish,for they do not know the way of the Lord,the requirements of their God.
5 So I will go to the leadersand 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 yokeand torn off the bonds.