Jeremiah 8:4-6

New Century Version

When people fall down, don’t they get up again?
    And when someone goes the wrong way, doesn’t he turn back?
⁵ Why, then, have the people of Jerusalem gone the wrong way
    and not turned back?
They believe their own lies
    and refuse to turn around and come back.
⁶ I have listened to them very carefully,
    but they do not say what is right.
They do not feel sorry about their wicked ways,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each person goes his own way,
    like a horse charging into a battle.