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.
37. I take to witness the grace of the people that shall come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness: and though they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they shall believe the thing that I say.
38. And now, O father, behold with glory; and see the people that come from the east:
39. to whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,
40. Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zachary, and Malachy, which is called also the angel of the Lord.