²³ But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

²⁸ All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

¹⁰ For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

¹⁸ If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

¹² My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

⁷ My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

⁸ The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

⁹ The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

⁵ I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

⁶ Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

⁵ Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.