4. “You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says:Do people fall and not get up again? If they turn away, do they not return?
5. Why have these people turned away?Why is Jerusalem always turning away?They take hold of deceit; they refuse to return.
6. I have paid careful attention.They do not speak what is right.No one regrets his evil,asking, ‘What have I done?’Everyone has stayed his courselike a horse rushing into battle.
7. Even the stork in the skyknows her seasons.The turtledove, swallow, and crane are aware of their migration,but My people do not knowthe requirements of the Lord.
8. “How can you claim, ‘We are wise;the law of the Lord is with us’?In fact, the lying pen of scribes has produced falsehood.
9. The wise will be put to shame;they will be dismayed and snared.They have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom do they really have?