6. I have paid attention and listened,but they weren’t honest.They don’t turn away from their wickedness and ask,“What have we done?”They go their own ways like horses charging into battle.
7. Even storks know when it’s time to return.Mourning doves, swallows, and cranes knowwhen it’s time to migrate.But my people don’t knowthat I, the Lord, am urging them to return.
8. “‘How can you say that you are wiseand that you have the Lord’s teachings?The scribes have used their pens to turn these teachings into lies.