Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 5:2
A church father on this verse
“Disasters occur either to discipline the obstinate people or punish evil people. The same God declares in the Holy Scriptures, "I have struck your children in vain. They have not received correction." The prophet devoted and dedicated to God answers these words in the same way and says, "You struck them, but they have…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
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In context
1Run ye about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye can find one, if there is anyone that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith the Lord.
— Jeremiah 5:2 —
3O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
4Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.