1. “Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person who does justice, who seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.
2. And though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ therefore they swear falsely.”
3. O Yahweh, do not your eyes look for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.
4. Then I said, “They are just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.