For the bed is shorter than one can stretch himself on, and the cover is narrower than one can wrap himself in.

You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can understand; of a foreign tongue that no one understands.

For the grave cannot praise You, death can not rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

Let all the nations be brought together, and let the people be gathered; who among them can declare this and make us hear former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is true.

You have bought Me no sweet cane with silver, nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.