“How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in labor?

They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.