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Jeremiah 5:4
New English Translation
Jeremiah 5:4
New English Translation
4 I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way.[a]
They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands.[b]
They do not know what their God requires of them.[c]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:4 tn Heb “Surely they are poor.” The translation is intended to make clear the explicit contrasts and qualifications drawn in this verse and the next.
- Jeremiah 5:4 tn Heb “the way of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 5:4 tn Heb “the judgment [or ordinance] of their God.”
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