¹² Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

⁵ thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

³ Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

¹⁵⁰ They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

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

¹¹ But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

¹² Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

²² "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?

²³ Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

⁵ Valiant men lie plundered, They have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

¹⁴ Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

¹³ "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

¹⁴ You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Hosts?

¹⁵ Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

¹ Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

²³ Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.

¹ Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?

² On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands.

³ Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entry doors, she cries aloud:

⁴ "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

⁵ You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked, For they don't seek your statutes.

¹ > Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,