1. “Whenever I want to heal my people Israel and make them prosperous again, all I can see is their wickedness and the evil they do. They cheat one another; they break into houses and steal; they rob people in the streets.
2. It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.”
3. The Lord says, “People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots.