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

⁹ For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

² and Pharaoh saith, `Who `is' Jehovah, that I hearken to His voice, to send Israel away? I have not known Jehovah, and Israel also I do not send away.'

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.

¹⁴ And cursed `is' a deceiver, who hath in his drove a male, And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, For a great king `am' I, said Jehovah of Hosts, And My name `is' revered among nations!

²⁴ till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

⁷ `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

⁶ According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

¹⁹ Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I `am' Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.

¹¹ Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

⁹ Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who `is' Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

⁴ Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips `are' our own; who `is' lord over us?'

³ For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'