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.


In Context

1 Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness — Then am I propitious to her.

2 And if they say, 'Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear.

3 Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

4 And 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 I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.

6 Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.

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 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.