22  “For my people are foolish;

they ^vknow me not;

they are stupid children;

they have no understanding.

They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!

But how to do good they know not.”

3  They bend their tongue like a bow;

falsehood and not truth has grown strong¹ in the land;

for they proceed from evil to evil,

and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

6  Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,

they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

1  Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,

for ^wthe Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.

There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,

and no ^xknowledge of God in the land;