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.
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.
1 |Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
2 Though they say, 'As Yahweh lives;' surely they swear falsely.|
3 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were 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 Then I said, |Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.| But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.
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.
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.
5:4But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.