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

²⁸ They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

¹⁰ Forty years long was I grieved with this 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, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

¹² Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

⁷ And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

⁸ They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

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

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.

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

⁵ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.