Psalm 81:12

Many times He would deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And so they sank down in their iniquity.

They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they will have no insight.

“I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts,

“And I also gave them statutes that were not good and judgments by which they could not live;

Ephraim is joined to idols; Let him alone.

“In the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;