They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.

²I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

³A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

⁴That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine’s flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.

⁵That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.

⁶Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.

⁷Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.

⁸Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.

⁹And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

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