⁶ I have listened^(A) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(B) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(C)
    like a horse charging into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(D)
    the requirements of the Lord.

⁸ “‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law^(E) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?