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


In Context

1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can fins a man that executeth judgement, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

2 And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.

3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

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

5 I will go therefore to the great men, and I will speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

6 Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.

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 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.

The American 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.