^{8 Ref} Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?

^{9 Ref} Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

^{10 Ref} And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.