Pro 27:22, Jer 5:3, 31:18 | ESV | STEP | Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain , yet his folly will not depart from him.

Proverbs 27:22

22 ^aCrush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
yet his folly will not depart from him.

Jeremiah 5:3

3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
^bYou have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
^cThey have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 31:18

18 I have heard ^dEphraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
^ebring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.