Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. ¹  But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. ²  Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. ³  They refuse to change their ways. ⁴ 

2Ch 16:9; 2Ch 28:22; Ps 11:4-7; Ps 51:6; Pr 21:29; Pr 22:12; Pr 23:35; Pr 27:22; Isa 1:5,6; Isa 9:13; Isa 42:25; Isa 48:4; Jer 2:30; Jer 7:28; Jer 32:19; Eze 3:7-9; Eze 24:13; Zep 3:1,2,7; Zec 7:11,12; Ro 2:2; Ro 2:4,5; Heb 12:9

¹ tn Heb “O Lord, are your eyes not to faithfulness?” The question is rhetorical and expects a positive answer.

² tn Commentaries and lexicons debate the meaning of the verb here. The MT is pointed as though from a verb meaning “to writhe in anguish or contrition” (חוּל [khul]; see, e.g., BDB 297 s.v. חוּל 2.c), but some commentaries and lexicons repoint the text as though from a verb meaning “to be sick,” thus “to feel pain” (חָלָה [khalah]; see, e.g., HALOT 304 s.v. חָלָה 3). The former appears more appropriate to the context.

³ tn Heb “They made their faces as hard as a rock.”

⁴ tn Or “to repent”; Heb “to turn back.”