“Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.
And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
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