Jeremiah 5:3 meaning and explanation
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Jeremiah 5:3, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah prays to God in the middle of a chapter where the LORD has searched Jerusalem for even one truthful person. The prophet agrees with God's verdict: the people were struck by hardship but felt nothing, corrected but refused to change.
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