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do your eyes not look for faithfulness?
Jeremiah uses this question to emphasize that what Yahweh really wants is faithfulness. Wanting people to be faithful is spoken of as looking for faithfulness. Alternate translation: "you look for faithfulness." or "you want people to be faithful." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
You struck the people, but they do not feel pain.
God punished his people in various ways. Here it is spoken of as if he hit them. Alternate translation: "You punish the people, but they do not pay attention" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
they still refuse to receive discipline
Here "to receive discipline" represents learning from discipline to do what is right. Alternate translation: "they still refuse to learn their lesson" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
They make their faces harder than rock
Hard faces represents the expression on their faces that shows that they are stubborn. The simile "harder than rock" shows that the people are extremely stubborn. Alternate translation: "They are extremely stubborn" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)