Jeremiah 8:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
When people fall, do they not get up again?
    If they go astray, do they not turn back?
⁵ Why then has this people^[a] turned away
    in perpetual backsliding?
They have held fast to deceit,
    they have refused to return.
⁶ I have given heed and listened,
    but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done!”
All of them turn to their own course,
    like a horse plunging headlong into battle.