3. However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” says the Lord who rules over all.
4. The Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘The Lord says,Do people not get back up when they fall down?Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?
5. Why, then, do these people of Jerusalemcontinually turn away from me in apostasy?They hold fast to their deception.They refuse to turn back to me.
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.