Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

Even the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtledove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this My people knows not the judgments of the Lord.

For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes; but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of His hands.

And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of [the grass] being parched. Come here, you woman that comes from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them shall have no pity upon them, and He that formed them shall have no mercy [upon them].

They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.

It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.

They had not sense to understand; let them reserve these things against the time to come.

Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise.

For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.

And they have bent their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known Me, says the Lord.

Everyone will mock his friend; they will not speak truth; their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn back, that I should heal them.'

And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;

For this they willingly forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and [the] earth, consisting out of water and through water,