20. The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21. the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.
22. “Yet you have not called on me, Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for me, Israel.
23. You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.
24. You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.
25. “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
26. Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
27. Your first father sinned; those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.