O LORD, do your eyes not look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

"They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are reproved by him;

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In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.

"They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me," says the LORD.

The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

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Your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

neither have our kings, our leaders, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

LORD, to us belongs open shame, to our kings, to our leaders, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city.

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But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.

The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

For thus says the LORD, "Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.

"Son of man, tell her, 'You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.'