“For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”

Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the Lord, The judgment of their God.

‘Hear this now, O foolish people, Without understanding, Who have eyes and see not, And who have ears and hear not:

But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.

“As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, So is he who gets riches, but not by right; It will leave him in the midst of his days, And at his end he will be a fool.”

A sword is against the soothsayers, and they will be fools. A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.