but you have ignored all my counsel, and have not desired my reproof:

But My people would not heed My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

Your Testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Let Your hand help me, for I have chosen Your Precepts.

The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed, and are captured. Lo, they have rejected the Word of Jehovah; so what wisdom is in them?

But they all with one accord began to decline. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.