Jeremiah 5:3

But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

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

I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

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.

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.