^10 (A)For forty years I loathed that generation
    and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
    and they have not known ^(B)my ways.”

²² “How long, O ^(A)simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will ^(B)scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools ^(C)hate knowledge?
²³ If you turn at my reproof,^[a]
behold, I will ^(D)pour out my spirit to you;
    I will make my words known to you.
^24 (E)Because I have called and ^(F)you refused to listen,
    have ^(G)stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,
²⁵ because you have ^(H)ignored all my counsel
    and ^(I)would have none of my reproof,
²⁶ I also ^(J)will laugh at your calamity;
    I will mock when ^(K)terror strikes you,
²⁷ when terror strikes you like ^(L)a storm
    and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
    when distress and anguish come upon you.
^28 (M)Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
    they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
²⁹ Because they ^(N)hated knowledge
    and ^(O)did not choose the fear of the Lord,

⁹ where your fathers put me to the test
    and saw my works for ^(A)forty years.
¹⁰ Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
    they have not known my ways.’

⁶ Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
    ^(A)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.