to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us,
and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
064:008 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you
our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
064:009 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever:
see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
064:010 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become
a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you,
is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
064:012 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you
hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
065:001 I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those
who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation
that was not called by my name.
065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
065:003 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing
in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
065:004 who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places;
who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is
in their vessels;
065:005 who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me,
for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose,
a fire that burns all the day.
065:006 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,
but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,
065:007 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,
says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains,
and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure
their work into their bosom.
065:008 Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it:
so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not
destroy them all.
065:009 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it,
and my servants shall dwell there.
065:010 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place
for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.
065:011 But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed
wine to Destiny;
065:012 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down
to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was
evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.
065:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat,
but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink,
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