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.
31. When you⌃ offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh, have I rejected.
32. I sent to you my servants the prophets, whom you⌃ have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, says the Lord.
33. Thus says the Lord Almighty, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind does stubble.
34. And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have neglected my commandment to you, and done that which is evil before me.
35. Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which not having heard of me yet believe me; they to whom I have showed no signs shall do that which I have commanded.
36. They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their former estate to remembrance.