And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations that were around them, of whom Jehovah had commanded them not to act like them.
Surely the rulers of Zoan are foolish ones; the advice of Pharaoh’s wise counselor has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise ones, the son of kings of old?
So, behold, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, the wonder, even a wonderful wonder. For the wisdom of his wise ones shall perish, and the wit of his witty ones shall be hidden.
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. And I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their lives. And I will give their corpses for food to the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth.
The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things not being profitable.
Were they ashamed when they made a disgusting thing? Yea, they were not at all ashamed, nor did they know to blush. So they shall fall among those falling. At the time I call them to account, says Jehovah.
Hear, O earth, behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts; for they have not paid attention to My words; and My Law, they also rejected it.
Disaster on disaster shall come, and rumor to rumor shall be. And they shall seek a vision from the prophet, but the Law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they rejected the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.
And it shall be in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed, each man of his vision when he prophesies, and they shall not wear a hairy garment to deceive.
and you shall keep and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes. And they shall say, This great nation is a people wise and understanding.