⁷ They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."

¹² "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

¹³ You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

¹¹ He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

¹² Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

¹³ Why does the wicked person condemn God, And say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

⁷ Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

¹⁵ Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

¹² Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

⁹ Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.

¹² It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."

³ A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

⁴ He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,