Jeremiah 5:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    O Jehovah,{H3068} do not thine eyes{H5869} look upon truth?{H530} thou hast stricken{H5221} them, but they were not grieved;{H2342} thou hast consumed{H3615} them, but they have refused{H3985} to receive{H3947} correction:{H4148} they have made their faces{H6440} harder{H2388} than a rock;{H5553} they have refused{H3985} to return.{H7725}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    O LORD{H3068}, are not thine eyes{H5869} upon the truth{H530}? thou hast stricken{H5221}{(H8689)} them, but they have not grieved{H2342}{(H8804)}; thou hast consumed{H3615}{(H8765)} them, but they have refused{H3985}{(H8765)} to receive{H3947}{(H8800)} correction{H4148}: they have made their faces{H6440} harder{H2388}{(H8765)} than a rock{H5553}; they have refused{H3985}{(H8765)} to return{H7725}{(H8800)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Where as thou (o LORDE) lokest only vpon faith and treuth. Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce: thou hast correcte them for amendemet, but they refused thy correction. They made their faces harder then a stone, and wolde not amende.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    O Lord, are not thine eyes vpo the trueth? Thou hast striken them, but they haue not sorowed: thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a stone, and haue refused to returne.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Wheras thou (O Lorde) lokest only vpon faith and trueth: Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce, thou hast corrected them for amendement, but they refused thy correction, they made their faces harder then a stone, and woulde not amende.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were 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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    LORD, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Isa 9:13 : 13 For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
  • Jer 7:28 : 28 But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
  • Zeph 3:1-2 : 1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2 She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in the LORD; she did not draw near to her God.
  • Zeph 3:7 : 7 I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, however I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their deeds.
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
  • Ps 11:4-7 : 4 The LORD is in His holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the children of men. 5 The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. 6 Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you shall make me know wisdom.
  • Prov 21:29 : 29 A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.
  • Prov 22:12 : 12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the transgressor.
  • Prov 23:35 : 35 "They have struck me," you shall say, "and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it; when shall I awake, I will seek it yet again."
  • Prov 27:22 : 22 Though you pound a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
  • Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.
  • Isa 42:25 : 25 Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow as bronze;
  • 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 And in the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this is that King Ahaz.
  • Rom 2:2 : 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.
  • Rom 2:4-5 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Jer 19:15 : 15 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
  • Jer 32:19 : 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for your eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
  • Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 24:13 : 13 In your filthiness is depravity: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged of your filthiness anymore, until I have caused my fury to rest upon you.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • Jer 8:4-5
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    4 Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall and not rise? Shall he turn away and not return?

    5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

  • 28 But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  • 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

  • 27 Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • 13 For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

  • Hab 1:12-13
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    12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction.

    13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?

  • Zech 7:11-12
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    11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

    12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

  • 2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.

  • 29 You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear.

  • Ezek 3:7-9
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    7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted.

    8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.

    9 Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

  • 33 And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.

  • 4 Then they shall cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds.

  • 10 And the pride of Israel bears witness to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

  • 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • Jer 2:29-31
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    29 Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.

    30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

    31 O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you?

  • 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:

  • 17 O LORD, why have you made us to stray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

  • 18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

  • 2 And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own actions have surrounded them; they are before my face.

  • 16 But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

  • 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 4 They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • 9 The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  • 17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • 13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • 35 For they have not served You in their kingdom, or in the vast and fertile land that You gave them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.

  • 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • 5 Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them and not build them up.

  • 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

  • 24 O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • 22 But You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry with us.

  • 19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

  • 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • 10 Thus says the LORD to this people, 'Thus they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.'

  • 7 I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, however I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their deeds.

  • 12 They have denied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

  • 7 Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD; that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm.

  • 1 He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.