As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water;<n id="1" /> you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.<n id="2" />

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness<n id="1" /> you have ruled over them.

He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor&#8217;s wife,

does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Yet you say, &#8216;The Lord&#8217;s conduct<n id="1" /> is unjust!&#8217; Hear, O house of Israel: Is my conduct unjust? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

Yet the house of Israel says, &#8216;The Lord&#8217;s conduct is unjust!&#8217; Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?p>

I also gave<n id="1" /> them decrees<n id="2" /> which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Yet your people<n id="1" /> say, &#8216;The behavior<n id="2" /> of the Lord is not right,&#8217;<n id="3" /> when it is their behavior that is not right.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;They must not shave their heads<n id="1" /> nor let their hair grow long;<n id="2" /> they must only trim their heads.

does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains<n id="1" /> or pray to the idols<n id="2" /> of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor&#8217;s wife, does not have sexual relations with a<n id="3" /> woman during her period,

<p class="poetry">The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,p> <p class="poetry">nor could the fir trees<n id="1" /> match its boughs;p> <p class="poetry">the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;p> <p class="poetry">no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.p>

I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.<n id="1" />

When they<n id="1" /> moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow<n id="2" /> without turning as they moved,

Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!&#8217;&#8221;p>

Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you<n id="1" /> will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

You were different from other prostitutes<n id="1" /> because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!p>

does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge,<n id="1" /> does not commit robbery,<n id="2" /> but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

does not engage in usury or charge interest,<n id="1" /> but refrains<n id="2" /> from wrongdoing, promotes true justice<n id="3" /> between men,

refrains from wrongdoing,<n id="1" /> does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father&#8217;s iniquity;<n id="2" /> he will surely live.