²² And Me thou hast not called, O Jacob, For thou hast been wearied of me, O Israel,

¹⁴ Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

¹³ And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,' And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah.

³ O My people, what have I done to thee? And what -- have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.

² ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

³ ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.

⁶⁶ From this `time' many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

⁶⁷ Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?'

⁶⁸ Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;

⁶⁹ and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

¹ Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

² Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

¹⁰ And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this.

¹¹ And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- `to' Asshur they have gone.

¹² When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.

¹³ Wo to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,

¹⁴ And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

¹³ as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy truth.

²⁵ Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!

³¹ O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, `We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'

³² Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

¹¹ Hath a nation changed gods? (And they `are' no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

¹² Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹³ For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

⁷ And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.

⁶ Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.

⁴ Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

⁹ His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

¹⁵ What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'