²³ But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

²⁸ They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

¹⁰ Forty years long was I grieved with `that' generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

¹² Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

⁷ And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to `him that is' on high, none at all will exalt `him'.

⁸ They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

⁵ I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

⁶ Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

⁵ Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.