And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit, by the hand of thy prophets. And they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.
That I may come down and speak with thee. And I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people: and thou mayest not be burthened alone.
What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?
For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early, I conjured them, and said: Hearken ye to my voice.