6 I have listened to them very carefully,but they do not speak honestly.None of them regrets the evil he has done.None of them says, “I have done wrong!”All of them persist in their own wayward courselike a horse charging recklessly into battle.
7 Even the stork knows when it is time to move on.The turtledove, swallow, and cranerecognize the normal times for their migration.But my people pay no attentionto what I, the Lord, require of them.
8 How can you say, “We are wise!We have the law of the Lord”?The truth is, those who teach it have used their writingsto make it say what it does not really mean.
9 Your wise men will be put to shame.They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment.Since they have rejected the word of the Lord,what wisdom do they really have?
10 So I will give their wives to other menand their fields to new owners.For from the least important to the most important of them,all of them are greedy for dishonest gain.Prophets and priests alike,all practice deceit.
11 They offer only superficial help for the hurt my dear people have suffered.They say, “Everything will be all right!”But everything is not all right!
12 Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things?No, they are not at all ashamed!They do not even know how to blush!So they will die just like others have died.They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,says the Lord.