4 “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh,
“Do men afall and not get up again?
Does one turn away and not turn back?
5 Why then has this people, Jerusalem,
aTurned away in continual faithlessness?
They bhold fast to deceit;
They crefuse to return.
6 I ahave given heed and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
bNo man regretted his evil,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his course,
Like a chorse charging into the battle.
7 Even the stork in the sky
aKnows her seasons;
And the bturtledove and the swift and the crane
Keep the time of their migration;
But cMy people do not know
The legal judgment of Yahweh.
8 “aHow can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of Yahweh is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
9 The wise men are aput to shame;
They are dismayed and captured;
Behold, they have brejected the word of Yahweh,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?
10 Therefore I will agive their wives to others,
Their fields to new possessors,
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is bgreedy for gain;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone practices lying.
11 They aheal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
12 Were they aashamed because of the abomination they had done?
They certainly were not ashamed,
And they did not know how to feel dishonor;
Therefore they shall bfall among those who fall;
At the ctime of their punishment they shall be brought down,”
Says Yahweh.