How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? Behold your ways in the burial ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening;

Why do you speak unto Me? You all have been ungodly, and you all have transgressed against Me, says the Lord.

I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.

He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper, but he that blames [himself] shall be loved.

saying, Why have we fasted, and You did not see? [Why] have we afflicted our souls, and You did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you wound.

For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.

If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we claim that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.