Then shall You call, and I will listen to You: or You shall speak, and I will give You an answer.

Let Him remove His rod from me, and let not His fear terrify me.

So shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

But oh that the Lord would speak to you, and open His lips to you!

Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, and come to an end [of the matter]!

And I would know the remedies which He would speak to me, and I would perceive what He would tell me.

for truth and reproof are from Him, and He would bring forth my judgment to an end.

(Oh that I had a hearer!) And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against anyone,

For if he would enter into judgment with Him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of His charges of a thousand.

Oh then that He would listen to me, or judge my cause.

For though I am righteous, He will not listen to me: I will intreat His judgment.

And come, let us reason together, says the Lord; and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool.

but if you be not willing, nor hearken to Me, a sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

Your judgment draws near, says the Lord God; your counsel has drawn near, says the King of Jacob.

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of the ungodly prospers? [And] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; You are near to their mouth, but far from their mind.

Hear, O you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you valleys; even the foundations of the earth: for the Lord has a controversy with His people, and will plead with Israel.