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.

4  Their deeds do not permit them

to return to their God.

For the ^mspirit of whoredom is within them,

and ⁿthey know not the Lord.