Hear, My people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you; if you will hearken to Me;

For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways.

Since I called, and you did not hear, and I spoke at length, and you gave no heed;

therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:

For it shall be that when you call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

Why did I come, and there was no man? [Why] did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.

Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in them].

I have set watchmen over you, [saying], Hear the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

See! Your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you shall by no means see Me until [the time] comes when you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'"

saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things pertaining to your peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

and they will level you to the ground, and your children with you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the season of your visitation."

He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].

He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable.

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.

for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.

Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?

Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Have you come to inquire of Me? [As] I live, I will not be inquired of by you, says the Lord.

thus they shall cry to the Lord, but He shall not hearken to them; and He shall turn away His face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.

Afterward the remaining virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!'

"But he answered and said, 'Assuredly I say to you, I do not know you.'

When once the Master of the house has risen up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and answering He will say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from.'

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts.