Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the womb, and taught [by Me] from infancy, [even] to old age;

Listen, and hear my voice; give ear, and hear my words.

Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you that escape from the nations. They that set up wood, [even] their graven image, have no knowledge, nor do they who pray to gods that do not save.

For the end, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear these words, all you nations, give ear, all you that dwell upon the earth;

So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and have become subject to reproofs.

Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

You shall proclaim wisdom, that understanding may be obedient to you.

For she sits by the gates of princes, and sings in the entrances, [saying],

O you simple, understand prudence, and you that are untaught, take in knowledge.

Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

Because you say, 'I am wealthy, and have become rich, and have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,

I counsel you to buy from Me gold having been tried by fire, so that you may become rich; and white robes, so that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not appear; and eye salve, so that you may anoint your eyes, in order that you may see.

I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.

All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands.

But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to My law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by His Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.

You have spoken grievous words against Me, says the Lord. Yet you said, In what way have we spoken against You?

And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

They have drawn near who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from Your law.

Salvation is far from sinners; for they have not searched out Your statutes.

Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?

But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have come to be near by the blood of Christ.