³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:

³ and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: “Your ^[a]birth ^(A)and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; ^(B)your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. ⁴ As for your nativity, ^(C)on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. ⁵ No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were ^[b]loathed on the day you were born.

^3 (A)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in ^(B)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and ^(C)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.