2:30 “It did no good for me to punish your people.
They did not respond to such correction.
You slaughtered your prophets
like a voracious lion.”
5:3 Lord, I know you look for faithfulness.
But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse.
Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected.
They have become as hardheaded as a rock.
They refuse to change their ways.
6:29 The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely.
But there is too much dross to be removed.
The process of refining them has proved useless.
The wicked have not been purged.
6:30 They are regarded as ‘rejected silver’
because the Lord rejects them.”
1:4
the people weighed down by evil deeds.
They are offspring who do wrong,
children
They have abandoned the Lord,
and rejected the Holy One of Israel.
They are alienated from him.
1:5
Why do you continue to rebel?
Your head has a massive wound,
your whole body is weak.
3:2 She is disobedient;
she refuses correction.
She does not trust the Lord;
she does not seek the advice of