Jeremiah 5:3-8 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them… Lord Byron, a short time before death, was heard to say, "Shall I sue for mercy?" After a long pause he added: "Come, come, no weakness; let's be a man to the last!" Parallel Verses KJV: O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. |