Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.

but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.

Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all."

in the countryside the flowers are in bloom. This is the time for singing; the song of doves is heard in the fields.

Then I thought, "These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the LORD wants them to do.

Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all."

At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes---and wine. But you don't understand what the LORD is doing,

Then I thought, "These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the LORD wants them to do.

I will go to the people in power and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what the LORD wants them to do." But all of them have rejected the LORD's authority and refuse to obey him.