³ Lord, don’t Your eyes look for faithfulness?^(A)
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.^(B)
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.^(C)
They made their faces harder than rock,^(D)
and they refused to return.^(E)

⁵ Israel will not return to the land of Egypt
and Assyria will be his king,^(A)
because they refused to repent.^(B)