Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who were carried by Me from the belly, who were sustained from the womb;

Give ear and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save, they know nothing.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah.] i0 par Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world;

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

Turn back at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you; I will make my words known to you.

Does not wisdom call out? And does not understanding put forth her voice?

beside the gates; at the opening to the city, at the doors of entry, she cries aloud:

Understand wisdom, you simple ones; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Therefore He says: Awake, you who sleep, stand forth out from among the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

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

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your brow bronze.

The stouthearted were plundered; they have become drowsy and fallen asleep; and none of the mighty men have found their hands.

But they refused to heed, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy that they might not hear.

And they made their heart adamant so as not to hear the Law and the Words which Jehovah of Hosts has sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. And great wrath came from Jehovah of Hosts.

Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. Yet you say, What have we spoken against you?

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Those that work wickedness are built up; they even test God, and escape.

You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

They have drawn near, those who follow after wickedness; they have been far from Your Law.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your Statutes.

Thus says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.