Jeremiah 7:28
You will say to them: 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of Jehovah their God or accept correction. Truth has perished and truth has been removed from their mouth.
Isaiah 59:14-15
Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in.
Psalm 50:17
You hate discipline. You cast (throw) my words behind you.
Proverbs 1:7
Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Isaiah 1:4-5
Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him.
Jeremiah 2:30
I have punished your children without results. They did not respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.
Jeremiah 5:1
People of Jerusalem, run through your streets! Look around and see for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If you can, Jehovah will forgive Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 5:3
Jehovah looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention. He crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.
Jeremiah 6:8
Be warned, O Jerusalem, I will be alienated from you. I will make you desolation, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
The bellows blow fiercely and the fire consumes the lead. The refining goes on in vain, but the wicked are not separated.
Jeremiah 9:3-8
They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. They do not know me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 32:33
have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of Jehovah, you children of Israel! For Jehovah has a legal case against the inhabitants of the land. There is no truth! There is no goodness. There is no knowledge of God in the land.
Micah 7:2-5
The godly (loyal) (holy) man has perished from the earth. There is none upright among men! They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his own brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:2
She did not obey the voice of Jehovah. She would not accept correction (discipline). She did not trust Jehovah and draw close to her God.
Zephaniah 3:7
I said, show me respect and receive discipline (instruction) (correction)! That way she would not loose her dwelling. This is according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.