4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.


In Context

1 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.

3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

5 I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

6 Why a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Jeremiah 5:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:4I thought, "These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord , the requirements of their God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:4But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor: they are foolish; for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4Then I said, |Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4And I — I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.