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18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them
    with ropes made of lies,
    who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!
19 They even mock God and say,
    “Hurry up and do something!
    We want to see what you can do.
Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan,
    for we want to know what it is.”

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18 Woe to those who drag their sins behind them like a bullock on a rope.[a] 19 They even mock the Holy One of Israel and dare the Lord to punish them.[b] “Hurry up and punish us, O Lord,” they say. “We want to see what you can do!”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:18 like a bullock on a rope, or “with cords of falsehood.”
  2. Isaiah 5:19 and dare the Lord to punish them, implied.