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Yet his degenerate children have treated him basely,
    a twisted and crooked generation!(A)
Is this how you repay the Lord,
    so foolish and unwise a people?
Is he not your father who begot you,
    the one who made and established you?(B)

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They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

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They are corrupt and not his children;
    to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.(A)
Is this the way you repay(B) the Lord,
    you foolish(C) and unwise people?(D)
Is he not your Father,(E) your Creator,[a]
    who made you and formed you?(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you

28 For they are a nation devoid of reason,[a]
    having no understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:28–35 The reference is to the nations, not to Israel.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

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28 They are a nation without sense,
    there is no discernment(A) in them.

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