“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.

This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.

You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’

But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

Remember, I have told you ahead of time.

Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame. (Selah)

So do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow;

They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

Jesus said to them, “Have faith in God.

if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

“I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.

The Lord says, “I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.