The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have
refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a
rock; they have refused to return.
JER 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.
JER 5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for
they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but
these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
JER 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf
of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their
cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because
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