23. I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.
24. What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and to them will I give my name, that they may keep my statutes.
25. Seeing you⌃ have forsaken me, I also will forsake you; when you⌃ ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you.
26. Whenever you⌃ shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for you⌃ have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.
27. You⌃ have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.
28. Thus says the Lord Almighty, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,
29. that you⌃ would be my people, and I should be your God; that you⌃ would be my children, and I should be your father?
30. I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.