⁶ Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

¹⁹ This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

¹⁰ This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

²⁴ Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

¹⁴ They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

³⁴ Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

²⁸ Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God's law, I will also forget your children.

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

¹⁸ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.

² Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, From a deceitful tongue.

³ What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, You deceitful tongue?

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.

⁵ Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶ My soul has had her dwelling too long With him who hates peace.