O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

You shall be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.

To whom shall I speak and testify, that he may hear? Behold, your ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear. Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them, they will not at all desire it.

Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? And he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord [addressed] to him, let him tell you why the land has been destroyed, [and] has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.

And they turned their backs to Me, and not their faces; though I taught them early in the morning, but they listened no more to receive instructions,

I will instruct you and guide you in the way you should go; I will fix My eyes upon you.

Be not as the horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and bridle, lest they should come near to you.

Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Hear, son, the instruction of your father, that you may be wise in your latter days.

To whom have we reported evils? And to whom have we reported a message? [Even to those] that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

by reason of the contemptuous [words] of the lips, by means of another language; for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,

Who [is there] among you that will give ear to these things? Hearken to the things which are coming to pass.

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, having refused Him who warned [them], how much more [shall we not escape] if we turn away from Him who warns from heaven;