Search for justice

1Roam through the streets of Jerusalem; look carefully and see for yourselves. Search her public squares. If you can find even one man who practices justice and seeks faithfulness, I will forgive her.

2Even when they say, “As Yahweh lives,” they still swear falsely.

3O Yahweh, are not your eyes on faithfulness? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you devastated them, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock; they refused to repent.

4Then I thought, “Surely these are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of Yahweh or the just requirements of their God.”

5“I will go to the prominent men and speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh and the just requirements of their God.” But together they too have broken the yoke and torn off the bonds.