17. I can see everything you are doing, even if you try to hide your sins from me.
18. I will punish you double for your sins, because you have made my own land disgusting. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.
19. Our Lord, you are the onewho gives me strengthand protects me like a fortresswhen I am in trouble.People will come to youfrom distant nations and say,“Our ancestors worshippedfalse and useless gods,
20. worthless idolsmade by human hands.”
21. Then the Lord replied,“That's why I will teach themabout my power,and they will knowthat I am the true God.”