¹² Therefore I will number you for the sword,
And you shall all bow down to the slaughter;
^(A)Because, when I called, you did not answer;
When I spoke, you did not hear,
But did evil before My eyes,
And chose that in which I do not delight.”

^24 (A)Because I have called and you refused,
I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

⁴ So will I choose their delusions,
And bring their fears on them;
^(A)Because, when I called, no one answered,
When I spoke they did not hear;
But they did evil before My eyes,
And chose that in which I do not delight.”

² Why, when I came, was there no man?
Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Indeed with My ^(A)rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
And die of thirst.

²⁹ And ^[a]testified against them,
That You might bring them back to Your law.
Yet they acted ^[b]proudly,
And did not heed Your commandments,
But sinned against Your judgments,
^(A)‘Which if a man does, he shall live by them.’
And they shrugged their shoulders,
^[c]Stiffened their necks,
And would not hear.
³⁰ Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And ^[d]testified ^(B)against them by Your Spirit ^(C)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
^(D)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.