8For He said, “Surely, they are My people,
            Sons who will not deal falsely.”
            So He became their Savior.
      9In all their affliction He was afflicted,
            And the angel of His presence saved them;
            In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,
            And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.
      10But they rebelled
            And grieved His Holy Spirit;
            Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy,
            He fought against them.
      11Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses.
            Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock?
            Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them,
      12Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses,
            Who divided the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,
      13Who led them through the depths?
            Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not stumble;
      14As the cattle which go down into the valley,
            The Spirit of the LORD gave them rest.
            So You led Your people,
            To make for Yourself a glorious name.
      15Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation;
            Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds?
            The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me.
      16For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us
            And Israel does not recognize us.
            You, O LORD, are our Father,
            Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.
      17Why, O LORD, do You cause us to stray from Your ways
            And harden our heart from fearing You?
            Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
      18Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,
            Our adversaries have trodden it down.

      5“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her. 6‘But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’ 7“Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Because you have more turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,’ 8therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. 9‘And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10‘Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind. 11‘So as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare. 12‘One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.
      13‘Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them. 14‘Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by 15‘So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16‘When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread. 17‘Moreover, I will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.’”