Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to 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 thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed 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.