Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

And the vision of all has become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:

For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die of thirst.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

Yea, they are greedy dogs who can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, everyone for his gain, from his own quarter.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear dull, that it cannot hear:

And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.