⁶ Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?^(A)
Isn’t he your Father and Creator?^[a](B)
Didn’t he make you and sustain you?

⁴ Their actions do not allow them
to return to their God,^(A)
for a spirit of promiscuity is among them,^(B)
and they do not know the Lord.^(C)