Jeremiah 5:4

I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. ¹  They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. ²  They do not know what their God requires of them. ³ 

Isa 27:11; Isa 28:9-13; Jer 4:22; Jer 7:8; Jer 8:7; Ho 4:6; Mt 11:5; Joh 7:48,49

¹ tn Heb “Surely they are poor.” The translation is intended to make clear the explicit contrasts and qualifications drawn in this verse and the next.

² tn Heb “the way of the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “the judgment [or ordinance] of their God.”