1. The Lord said, “I was ready to answer my people's prayers, but they did not pray. I was ready for them to find me, but they did not even try. The nation did not pray to me, even though I was always ready to answer, ‘Here I am; I will help you.’
2. I have always been ready to welcome my people, who stubbornly do what is wrong and go their own way.
3. They shamelessly keep on making me angry. They offer pagan sacrifices in sacred gardens and burn incense on pagan altars.