It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the oppressed, by the soles of the poor.”

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the Lord; they rebel against his royal authority.

My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.