¹⁶ Therefore confess your sins^(A) to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.^(B) The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.^(C)

³⁰ “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall^(A) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.^(B)

²⁵ I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights^(A) because the Lord had said he would destroy you.^(B)

¹³ And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people^(A), and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! ¹⁴ Let me alone,^(B) so that I may destroy them and blot out^(C) their name from under heaven.^(D) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”

⁸ “‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me;^(A) they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.^(B) So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.^(C)

⁵ You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair^(A) it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord.^(B)