Misinterpretations of Jeremiah 5:5 often literalize the yoke and bonds as human oppression, twisting it into a call to resist earthly rulers rather than recognizing the spiritual metaphor for defying God's covenant; others assume it absolves the common people by blaming only elites, ignoring the passage's progression showing universal sinfulness; some apply it anachronistically to modern politics, missing the context of prophetic warning against covenant unfaithfulness to Yahweh.
Jeremiah 5:5
King James Version (1769)
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
In Jeremiah 5:5, the prophet, having excused the ignorance of the poor in verse 4, turns to Judah's leaders expecting better, yet discovers they too have knowingly rejected God's ways and judgments by breaking the metaphorical yoke of obedience and bursting the bonds of His law, revealing a total societal rebellion from top to bottom that justifies God's impending judgment on unfaithful Israel.