24. You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.
25. “I, even I, am he who blots out your 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 destruction and Israel to scorn.