Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to me, I will not listen to them.
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a food offering, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have behaved themselves wrongfully in their doings.
When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I do not know where you are from:
