²⁸ Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction.^(A) Truth^(B) has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

²⁹ “‘Cut off^(A) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament^(B) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned^(C) this generation that is under his wrath.