³ How long will you assault a man, Would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

¹⁴ Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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

² Those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

² "How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

¹² They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.

¹¹ For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

² You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

²⁸ Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

¹⁷ Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."

¹⁵ Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, Yet they plot evil against me.

¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

¹⁴ He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

⁹ How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

¹⁹ How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

²⁰ As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

¹⁰ David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

³ Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.