Jeremiah 8:4-6

Modern English Version

Do men fall and not arise?
    Do they turn away and not repent?
⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem
    turned away by a perpetual backsliding?
They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
⁶ I listened and heard,
    but they did not speak what is right.
No man repented of his wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Everyone turned to his course,
    as the horse rushes into the battle.