Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, ¹  but you were not satisfied there either.

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; ¹  we wailed in mourning, ²  yet you did not weep.’

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? ¹ 

As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; ¹  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. ² 

But the wheat and the spelt ¹  were not struck, for they are later crops.) ² 

But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

They went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

and they said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? ¹  What in the world ²  have you done to us by bringing ³  us out of Egypt?

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, ¹  ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; ²  we wailed in mourning, ³  yet you did not weep.’

For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated ¹  (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you. ² 

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God. ¹ 

David replied to him, “How is it that you were not afraid to reach out your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?”

but from my youth I raised the orphan ¹  like a father, and from my mother’s womb ²  I guided the widow! ³ 

She is harsh ¹  with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy.

Then ¹  he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, ²  not people for the Sabbath.

And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

So ¹  Judas ²  agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus ³  when no crowd was present. ⁴ 

They replied, ¹  “If this man ²  were not a criminal, ³  we would not have handed him over to you.” ⁴