Thine habitation {is} in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. {pulled...: Heb. they gave a backsliding shoulder} {stopped: Heb. made heavy}

O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, {but} they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt {him}. {none...: Heb. together they exalted not}

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more {shall not} we {escape}, if we turn away from him that {speaketh} from heaven:

As a cage is full of birds, so {are} their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. {cage: or, coop}

{Even him}, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, {Is there} not a lie in my right hand?

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

But that which ye have {already} hold fast till I come.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels {and} in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. {imagination: or, stubbornness} {went: Heb. were}

Can a maid forget her ornaments, {or} a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Take fast hold of instruction; let {her} not go: keep her; for she {is} thy life.

And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken {it}.

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that {is} written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt {him}. {none...: Heb. together they exalted not}

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man {shall be satisfied} from himself.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels {and} in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. {imagination: or, stubbornness} {went: Heb. were}

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one.

Thine habitation {is} in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. {pulled...: Heb. they gave a backsliding shoulder} {stopped: Heb. made heavy}

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that {are} round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that {it is} an evil {thing} and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear {is} not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn {yourselves} from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. {yourselves: or, others}

Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: {Is} not the LORD in Zion? {is} not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, {and} with strange vanities? {them...: Heb. the country of them that are far off}

This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. {imagination: or, stubbornness}

And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart {is} hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.