How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! You are a swift camel crisscrossing its ways.

Why will you plead with Me? You all have rebelled against Me, says Jehovah.

I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.

He who covers his sins shall not prosper; but he who confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you devise pleasures, and oppress all your laborers.

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

Therefore I will contend with you, says Jehovah, and with your children's children I will make a complaint.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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