Jeremiah 5:3

‘And if by these things you do not accept My discipline, but walk in hostility against Me,

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.

“They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will seek yet another.”

Though you pound an ignorant fool in a mortar with a pestle in the midst of crushed grain, His folly will not turn aside from him.

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek Yahweh of hosts.

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

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual faithlessness? They hold fast to deceit; They refuse to return.

“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive discipline by listening to My words?” declares Yahweh.

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,

“I am sending you to them who are stiff-faced and strong-hearted children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh.’

“As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God by turning from our iniquity and acting wisely in Your truth.

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all your places, Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.

She did not listen to any voice; She did not receive discipline. She did not trust in Yahweh; She did not draw near to her God.

“But they refused to give heed and turned a stubborn shoulder and dulled their ears from hearing.