Jeremiah 5:4
“Therefore I said, Surely these are poore, they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.”
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Jeremiah 5:4 Context
2And though they say, The Lord liueth, surely they sweare falsely. 3O Lord, are not thine eyes vpon the trueth? thou hast stricken them, but they haue not grieued; thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a rocke, they haue refused to returne. 4Therefore I said, Surely these are poore, they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God. 5I wil get me vnto the great men, and will speake vnto them, for they haue knowen the way of the Lord, and the iudgement of their God: but these haue altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bondes. 6Wherfore a lyon out of the forrest shall slay them, and a wolfe of the euenings shall spoile them, a leopard shall watch ouer their cities: euery one that goeth out thence shalbe torne in pieces, because their transgressions are many, and their backeslidings are increased.
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Other Translations for Jeremiah 5:4
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.
- King James Version
Then I said, "They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD {Or} the ordinance of their God.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:
- American Standard Version (1901)
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
- Basic English Bible
And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.
- Darby Bible
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.
- Webster's Bible
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.
- World English Bible
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.
- Youngs Literal Bible
And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God;
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Jeremiah 5:4
5:4 Poor - The vulgar, that understand but little, of less conscience than the better sort. Judgment - The methods or ways of his providence.