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

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

¹⁰ Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, And said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

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

¹² Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

⁷ My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, He certainly won't exalt them.

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 to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

⁶ Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

⁵ Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.