Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?
Isaiah 43:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet you have not called upon Me [much less toiled for Me], O Jacob; but you have been weary of Me, O Israel! American Standard Version (1901) Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. Common English Bible But you didn’t call out to me, Jacob; you were tired of me, Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob: neither hast thou laboured about me, O Israel. |
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
There is no one who calls on your name or attempts to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him and have laid waste his habitation.
Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?
Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us. We did not entreat the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and reflecting on his fidelity.
“O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!
“What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at it, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.
You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”
You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?