Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the leaders ¹  and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. ²  Surely they know what their God requires of them.” ³  Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him. ⁴ 

Ps 2:2,3; Jer 6:13; Eze 22:6-8,25-29; Am 4:1; Mic 3:1; Mic 3:1-4,11; Mic 7:3,4; Zep 3:3-5; Mal 2:7; Mt 19:23-26; Lu 18:24; Lu 19:14; Ac 4:26,27; Jas 2:5-7

¹ tn Or “people in power”; Heb “the great ones.”

² tn Heb “the way of the Lord.”

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

⁴ tn Heb “have broken the yoke and torn off the yoke ropes.” Compare Jer 2:20 and the note there.