Breaking Covenant Through Injustice

¹⁷ You have wearied^(A) the Lord with your words.

“How have we wearied him?” you ask.^(B)

By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased^(C) with them” or “Where is the God of justice?^(D)”

⁴³ “‘Because you did not remember^(A) the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down^(B) on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?^(C)

⁹ Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember^(A) me—how I have been grieved^(B) by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols.^(C) They will loathe themselves for the evil^(D) they have done and for all their detestable practices.^(E)

¹³ Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David!^(A) Is it not enough^(B) to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience^(C) of my God^(D) also?