Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.