¹⁸ O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

⁷ For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

¹⁸ I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

¹⁹ But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

¹¹ And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

³ You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

⁴ O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!

⁹ Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

¹⁰ And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

⁹ Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

⁵ Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.