Lord, don’t Your eyes look for faithfulness?
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.

I have heard Ephraim moaning,
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.
Restore me, and I will return,
for you, Lord, are my God.

I felt it not

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

I will

As a dog returns to its vomit,
so a fool repeats his foolishness.

When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

But look: joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

“Come, let me get some wine,
let’s guzzle some beer;
and tomorrow will be like today,
only far better!”

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If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me?

If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit,

and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”

General references

A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like a stick with thorns,
brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

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

They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be: