4  Then I said, “These are only the poor;

they have no sense;

for they do not know the way of the Lord,

the ⁱjustice of their God.

5  I will go to the great

and will speak to them,

for they know the way of the Lord,

the justice of their God.”

But they all alike had broken the yoke;

they had ^jburst the bonds.

7  ^sEven the stork in the heavens

knows her times,

and the turtledove, swallow, and crane¹

keep the time of their coming,

but my people know not

the rules² of the Lord.