Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in {\i their own} counsels {\i and} in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.