4 Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. 5 I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
Jeremiah 5:4–5
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