1. “Whenever I want to heal my people Israel and make them prosperous again, all I can see is their wickedness and the evil they do. They cheat one another; they break into houses and steal; they rob people in the streets.
2. It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.”
3. The Lord says, “People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots.
4. They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smoulders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake.