²² “For my people are fools;
they do not know me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.^(A)
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”^(B)

⁴ Their actions do not allow them
to return to their God,^(A)
for a spirit of promiscuity is among them,^(B)
and they do not know the Lord.^(C)