⁹ He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice.^(A) They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’^(B)

¹² He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness,^(A) each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see^(B) us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

³⁹ When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet,^(A) he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”

⁶ Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,

¹¹ When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.