“‘When people fall down, do they not get up?^(A)
    When someone turns away,^(B) do they not return?
⁵ Why then have these people turned away?
    Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;^(C)
    they refuse to return.^(D)
6 I have listened^(E) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(F) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(G)
    like a horse charging into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(H)
    the requirements of the Lord.

⁸ “‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law^(I) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?
⁹ The wise^(J) will be put to shame;
    they will be dismayed^(K) and trapped.^(L)
Since they have rejected the word^(M) of the Lord,
    what kind of wisdom^(N) do they have?