⁵ Why do you continue to invite punishment?
    Must you rebel forever?
Your head is injured,
    and your heart is sick.

² My hands have made both heaven and earth;
    they and everything in them are mine.^[a]
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

“I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts,
    who tremble at my word.

¹⁴ The descendants of your tormentors
    will come and bow before you.
Those who despised you
    will kiss your feet.
They will call you the City of the Lord,
    and Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

²² You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,
    even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

¹⁷ He will listen to the prayers of the destitute.
    He will not reject their pleas.

¹⁴ He will redeem them from oppression and violence,
    for their lives are precious to him.