²² “My people are fools;^(A)
    they do not know me.^(B)
They are senseless children;
    they have no understanding.^(C)
They are skilled in doing evil;^(D)
    they know not how to do good.”^(E)

⁴ I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they are foolish,^(A)
for they do not know^(B) the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.

³ “They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;^(A)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph^[a] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge^(B) me,”
declares the Lord.

⁶ You^[a] live in the midst of deception;^(A)
    in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,”
declares the Lord.