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Expandi manus meas tota die ad populum incredulum, qui graditur in via non bona post cogitationes suas.

Populus qui ad iracundiam provocat me ante faciem meam semper; qui immolant in hortis, et sacrificant super lateres;

qui habitant in sepulchris, et in delubris idolorum dormiunt; qui comedunt carnem suillam, et jus profanum in vasis eorum;

qui dicunt: Recede a me, non appropinques mihi, quia immundus es. Isti fumus erunt in furore meo, ignis ardens tota die.

Ecce scriptum est coram me: Non tacebo, sed reddam, et retribuam in sinum eorum.

Iniquitates vestras, et iniquitates patrum vestrorum simul, dicit Dominus; qui sacrificaverunt super montes, et super colles exprobraverunt mihi; et remetiar opus eorum primum in sinu eorum.

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All day long I have held out my hands
    to an obstinate people,(A)
who walk in ways not good,
    pursuing their own imaginations(B)
a people who continually provoke me
    to my very face,(C)
offering sacrifices in gardens(D)
    and burning incense(E) on altars of brick;
who sit among the graves(F)
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(G)
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
    for I am too sacred(H) for you!’
Such people are smoke(I) in my nostrils,
    a fire that keeps burning all day.

“See, it stands written before me:
    I will not keep silent(J) but will pay back(K) in full;
    I will pay it back into their laps(L)
both your sins(M) and the sins of your ancestors,”(N)
    says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
    and defied me on the hills,(O)
I will measure into their laps
    the full payment(P) for their former deeds.”

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