Jeremiah 5:5
King James Version
“I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, burst the bonds.”
Context
2And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3O LORD, not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
4Therefore I said, Surely these poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, the judgment of their God.
5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, burst the bonds.
6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, 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 their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased.
7How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8They were fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.