1. “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me;I appeared to those who did not look for me.I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’to a nation that did not invoke my name.
2. I spread out my hands all day longto my rebellious people,who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable,and who did what they desired.
3. These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchardsand burn incense on brick altars.
4. They sit among the tombsand keep watch all night long.They eat pork,and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.
5. They say, ‘Keep to yourself!Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’These people are like smoke in my nostrils,like a fire that keeps burning all day long.
6. Look, I have decreed:I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,
7. for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” says the Lord.“Because they burned incense on the mountainsand offended me on the hills,I will punish them in full measure.”
8. This is what the Lord says:“When juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’So I will do for the sake of my servants – I will not destroy everyone.