But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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