²³ But these people have stubborn and rebellious^(A) hearts;
    they have turned aside^(B) and gone away.

²⁸ They are all hardened rebels,^(A)
    going about to slander.^(B)
They are bronze and iron;^(C)
    they all act corruptly.

⁷ My people are determined to turn^(A) from me.^(B)
    Even though they call me God Most High,
    I will by no means exalt them.

¹⁰ For forty years^(A) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,^(B)
    and they have not known my ways.’^(C)

⁸ They feed on the sins of my people
    and relish their wickedness.^(A)

⁹ The heart^(A) is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

⁵ So I will go to the leaders^(A)
    and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.”
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
    and torn off the bonds.^(B)