Jeremiah 7:28
But you shall say to them, This is a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives instruction; truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Isaiah 59:14-15
And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.
Psalm 50:17
Yea, you hate to be taught, and you toss My Words behind you.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Isaiah 1:4-5
Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.
Jeremiah 2:30
In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 5:1
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 6:8
O Jerusalem, you must be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land without people.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
The bellows are burned, the lead is melted by the fire; the refiner melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah 9:3-8
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Micah 7:2-5
The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:2
She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction. She trusted not in Jehovah; she did not draw near to her God.
Zephaniah 3:7
I said, Surely you will fear Me; you will receive instruction; then her dwelling shall not be cut off, all that I appointed for her. But they rose early, corrupting all their doings.