¹² Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in my righteousness:

⁵ These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

³ Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

¹⁵⁰ Those who have evil designs against me come near; they are far from your law.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

¹¹ But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

¹² And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

⁴ Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

²³ Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

⁵ Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

¹⁷ For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

¹⁸ If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

¹³ Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

¹⁴ You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

¹⁵ And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

¹ Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

²⁰ Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

²³ Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.

¹ Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

² At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

³ Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

⁴ I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

⁵ Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

¹ <Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.> Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.