Isaiah 42:23-25

Good News Translation

²³ Will any of you listen to this?
    From now on will you listen with care?
²⁴ Who gave Israel up to the looters?
    It was the Lord himself, against whom we sinned!
We would not live as he wanted us to live
    or obey the teachings he gave us.
²⁵ So he made us feel the force of his anger
    and suffer the violence of war.
Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel,
    but we never knew what was happening;
    we learned nothing at all from it.