How sayest thou, 'I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

'Pure [am] I, without transgression, Innocent [am] I, and I have no iniquity.

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

'Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

if we may say -- 'we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.