How can you say you have not defiled yourself, that you have never worshiped Baal? Look how you sinned in the valley; see what you have done. You are like a wild camel in heat, running around loose,

What is your complaint? Why have you rebelled against me?

"I am not guilty; I have done nothing wrong. I am innocent and free from sin.

You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.

The people ask, "Why should we fast if the LORD never notices? Why should we go without food if he pays no attention?" The LORD says to them, "The truth is that at the same time you fast, you pursue your own interests and oppress your workers.

I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

"And so I, the LORD, will state my case against my people again. I will bring charges against their descendants.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.