1. ‘I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;I was found by those who did not seek me.To a nation that did not call on my name,I said, “Here am I, here am I.”
2. All day long I have held out my handsto an obstinate people,who walk in ways not good,pursuing their own imaginations –
3. a people who continually provoke meto my very face,offering sacrifices in gardensand burning incense on altars of brick;
4. who sit among the gravesand spend their nights keeping secret vigil;who eat the flesh of pigs,and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5. who say, “Keep away; don’t come near me,for I am too sacred for you!”Such people are smoke in my nostrils,a fire that keeps burning all day.