Jeremiah 5:5

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3 O Lord, are not ^aYour eyes on the truth?
You have ^bstricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But ^cthey have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.

4 Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor.
They are foolish;
For ^athey do not know the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.

5 I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For ^athey have known the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.”
But these have altogether ^bbroken the yoke
And burst the bonds.

6 Therefore ^aa lion from the forest shall slay them,
^bA wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
^cA leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many;
Their backslidings have increased.

7 “How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And ^asworn by those ^bthat are not gods.
^cWhen I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

8 ^aThey were like well-fed lusty stallions;
Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Jeremiah 5:5

I will get me unto the great men - Those whose circumstances and rank in life gave them opportunities of information which the others could not have, for the reasons already given.

These have altogether broken the yoke - These have cast aside all restraint, have acted above law, and have trampled all moral obligations under their feet, and into their vortex the lower classes of the people have been swept away. Solon said, "The laws are like cobwebs; they entangle the small fry, but the great ones go through them, and carry all away with them."

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