You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the da
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘T
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth m
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.