I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

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

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.