¹⁸ "Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.

⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

²¹ For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

¹⁸ If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened.

¹⁹ But most assuredly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

¹¹ Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

³ You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

⁴ You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.

⁹ Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;

¹⁰ and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

¹⁵ When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

⁹ Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

⁵ and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders.