25. ‘I, even I, am he who blots outyour transgressions, for my own sake,and remembers your sins no more.
26. Review the past for me,let us argue the matter together;state the case for your innocence.
27. Your first father sinned;those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.
28. So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple;I consigned Jacob to destructionand Israel to scorn.