And that's how it should be with you. When you've done all you should, then say, “We are merely servants, and we have simply done our duty.”
Has anyone loaned something to the Lord that must be repaid?”
We are unfit to worship you; each of our good deeds is merely a filthy rag. We dry up like leaves; our sins are storm winds sweeping us away.
They have all turned away and are worthless. There isn't one person who does right.
You are a worthless servant, and you will be thrown out into the dark where people will cry and grit their teeth in pain.”
Then I cried out, “I'm doomed! Everything I say is sinful, and so are the words of everyone around me. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”
Before this, he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.
Servants don't deserve special thanks for doing what they are supposed to do.
On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
But when our ancestors took over the land, they did not obey you. And now you have punished Israel with disaster.