“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce
    with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors did I sell you?
    Look! It’s because of your sins that you were sold,
        and because of your transgressions that your mother was sent away.
² Why is it that when I came, no one was there?
    Why was there no answer when I called?
Was my arm^[a] too short to redeem you?
    Do^[b] I lack the strength to rescue you?
Look! By my mere rebuke I dry up the sea,
    I turn rivers into a desert.
Their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.
³ I clothe the skies with darkness
    and make sackcloth their covering.”