Jeremiah 5:2-4

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³ Lord, I know that you want people
    to be loyal to you.
You hit the people of Judah,
    but they did not feel any pain.
You destroyed them,
    but they refused to learn their lesson.
They became very stubborn.
    They refused to be sorry for the bad things they did.

⁴ But I said to myself,
    “It must be only the poor who are so foolish.
They have not learned the way of the Lord.
    They don’t know the teachings of their God.