<p class="bodytext">Then I said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look up, Jerusalem,<n id="2" /> and seep> <p class="poetry">the enemy<n id="3" /> that is coming from the north.p> <p class="poetry">Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care?<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Where now are the &#8216;sheep&#8217; that you take such pride in?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to what they are saying to me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They are saying, &#8220;Where are the things the <sc>Lordsc> threatens us with?p> <p class="poetry">Come on! Let&#8217;s see them happen!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They did not ask:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Where is the <sc>Lordsc> who delivered us out of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">who brought us through the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">through a land of desert sands and rift valleys,p> <p class="poetry">through a land of drought and deep darkness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">through a land in which no one travels,p> <p class="poetry">and where no one lives?&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your priests<n id="1" /> did not ask, &#8216;Where is the <sc>Lordsc>?&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Those responsible for teaching my law<n id="3" /> did not really know me.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Your rulers rebelled against me.p> <p class="poetry">Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">They all worshiped idols that could not help them.<n id="6" />p>