²³ And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

²⁸ All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously -- brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.

¹⁰ Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

¹⁸ `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

¹² See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

⁷ And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

⁸ The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

⁹ Crooked `is' the heart above all things, And it `is' incurable -- who doth know it?

⁵ I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.

⁶ Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy.

⁵ Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.