“Then I said.
‘These are only the poor.
They have no sense.
They do not know
The way of Yahweh.
They do not know
The law of their God.
Let me go to the rich!
I will speak to them.
They know
The way of Yahweh.
They know
The law of their God.’
But they all alike
Had broken the yoke.
They had burst the bonds.”
Jeremiah went to both the rich and the poor people in Jerusalem. At first, he thought that the little poor people had no sense. They did not know Yahweh or the law of God. However, he found the same thing among the privileged rich people also. He had expected the rich to know Yahweh and the law. However, they both turned out the same. They had both broken the yoke of Yahweh and burst out of his bonds.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 