Isaiah 1:5

So he again sent the commander of a third fifty with his fifty. Then the third commander of fifty went up and came and bowed down on his knees before Elijah, and he begged him and said to him, “O man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.

Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to Yahweh.

Return to Him against whom you have deeply rebelled, O sons of Israel.

“In vain I have struck your sons; They received no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

O Yahweh, do not Your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they refused to receive discipline. They have made their faces stronger than rock; They have refused to repent.

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.

“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can know it?

because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered to Jeremiah, saying,

Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes are dim;