Bible Verses About National Sins: Pervade all ranks

"Where should I strike you next, as you persist in rebelling? The whole head is sick, the whole heart diseased.

"Roam the streets of Yerushalayim look around, observe and ask in its open spaces: if you can find anyone (if there is anyone!) who acts with justice and seeks the truth, I will pardon her.

And though they say, 'As ADONAI lives,' the fact is that they are swearing falsely."

ADONAI, your eyes look for truth. You struck them, but they weren't affected; you [nearly] destroyed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than rock, refusing to repent.

My reaction was, "These must be the poor, the foolish, not knowing the way of ADONAI or the rulings of their God.

I will go to the prominent men, and I will speak to them; for they know the way of ADONAI and the rulings of their God." But these had completely broken the yoke and torn the harness off.

"For from the least to the greatest of them, all are greedy for gains; prophets and cohanim alike, they all practice fraud