<p class="poetry">Why do you say, Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Why do you say, Israel,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is not aware of what is happening to me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">My God is not concerned with my vindication&#8221;?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Now they come into being,<n id="1" /> not in the past;p> <p class="poetry">before today you did not hear about them,p> <p class="poetry">so you could not say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Yes,<n id="2" /> I know about them.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">You will desecrate your silver-plated idols<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your gold-plated images.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag,p> <p class="poetry">saying to them, &#8220;Get out!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">I announced them to you beforehand;p> <p class="poetry">before they happened, I predicted them for you,p> <p class="poetry">so you could never say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;My image did these things,p> <p class="poetry">my idol, my cast image, decreed them.&#8217;p>

Perhaps you will tell me, &#8216;We are trusting in the <sc>Lordsc> our God.&#8217; But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, &#8216;You must worship at this altar.&#8217;