^3 (A)‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
    Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,^{[a]
    (B)}and oppress all your workers.

⁸ They scoff and ^(A)speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.
⁹ They set their mouths against the heavens,
    and their tongue struts through the earth.
¹⁰ Therefore his people turn back to them,
    and find ^(B)no fault in them.^[a]
11 And they say, ^(C)“How can God know?
    Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
¹² Behold, these are the wicked;
    always at ease, they ^(D)increase in riches.
¹³ All in vain have I ^(E)kept my heart clean
    and ^(F)washed my hands in innocence.

³ that you ask, ^(A)‘What advantage have I?
    How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

¹² At that time ^(A)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
    and I will punish the men
^(B)who are complacent,^{[a]
    (C)}those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
    nor will he do ill.’

¹² “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
    ^(A)“return to me with all your heart,
^(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

⁹ For ^(A)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
    that he should take delight in God.’