Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkened unto my words, and they hated my law.

And she has changed my judgments and my statutes into wickedness more than the Gentiles and more than the lands that are round about her; for they have disregarded my judgments and my commandments and have not walked in them.

Envy thou not the oppressor and choose none of his ways.

My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

because they despised my rights and did not walk in my statutes but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.

Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast thee off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.

Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Judah and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his statutes, and their lies caused them to err after which their fathers have walked:

but remove from ourselves every hidden shameful thing, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but in the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

He therefore that despises us, does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

Zain The Lord has cast off his altar; he has abhorred his sanctuary; he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have shouted in the house of the LORD as in the day of a feast.

For everything that God created is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving,