How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, [And] grieved Him in the desert!

Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing [them.]

Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! [Is it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?

You have bought Me no sweet cane with money, Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices; But you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.

"Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

"Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these [things,] surely I will also recompense your deeds on [your own] head," says the Lord GOD. "And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.

You have wearied the LORD with your words; Yet you say, "In what way have we wearied [Him?"] In that you say, "Everyone who does evil [Is] good in the sight of the LORD, And He delights in them," Or, "Where [is] the God of justice?"