¹² Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing ^(A)in the dark, each ^(B)in his room of pictures? For they say, ^(C)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

⁹ Then he said to me, ^(A)“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. ^(B)The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For ^(C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

¹¹ Because ^(A)the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, ^(B)the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

³⁹ Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If ^(A)this man were ^(B)a prophet, he ^(C)would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”