Zephaniah 3:2

O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder t...

I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great prov...

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the p...

But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Isra...

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I hav...

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.