I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!

They all stubbornly rebel, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways.

Why will you be stricken any more? Will you rebel more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.

Return to Him, against whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

They eat up the sin of My people, and they set their appetites on their iniquity.

And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, no one at all exalts Him.

Beware, brethren, that there not be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God;