1 “Run up and down every street in Jerusalem,” says the lord.“Look high and low; search throughout the city!If you can find even one just and honest person,I will not destroy the city.
2 But even when they are under oath,saying, ‘As surely as the lord lives,’they are still telling lies!”
3 lord, you are searching for honesty.You struck your people,but they paid no attention.You crushed them,but they refused to be corrected.They are determined, with faces set like stone;they have refused to repent.
4 Then I said, “But what can we expect from the poor?They are ignorant.They don’t know the ways of the lord.They don’t understand God’s laws.