Let your private parts be exposed! Your genitals will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”

For my sake alone I will act, for how can I allow my name to be defiled? I will not share my glory with anyone else!

They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.”

“O afflicted one, driven away, and unconsoled! Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony and I lay your foundation with lapis-lazuli.

But the wicked are like a surging sea that is unable to be quiet; its waves toss up mud and sand.

Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will be totally destroyed.

They will be called, “The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the Lord.” You will be called, “Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”

He said, “Certainly they will be my people, children who are not disloyal.” He became their deliverer.

When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.

Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,

Jerusalem will bring me joy, and my people will bring me happiness. The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow will never be heard in her again.

“Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord. “Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God.

I answered, “Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

They will attack you but they will not be able to overcome you, for I will be with you to rescue you,” says the Lord.

Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.

“It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”