Jeremiah 9:6

These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.