Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

In light of all this, ¹  how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. ¹  I warned them again and again, ²  ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.

This day ¹  I have told you what he said. ²  But you do not want to obey the Lord by doing what he sent me to tell you. ³ 

‘You have said, “I feel so hopeless! ¹  For the Lord has added sorrow to my suffering. ²  I am worn out from groaning. I can’t find any rest.”’”

How long will you cry out, ¹  ‘Oh, sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you stop killing? ²  Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!’ ³ 

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, “the Lord declares,” although I myself never spoke?

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ¹  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. ¹ 

If then you haven’t been trustworthy ¹  in handling worldly wealth, ²  who will entrust you with the true riches? ³ 

And if you haven’t been trustworthy ¹  with someone else’s property, ²  who will give you your own ³ ?

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

Thomas said, ¹  “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, ¹  so that your joy may be complete.

So Jesus said to them, “Children, you don’t have any fish, ¹  do you?” ²  They replied, ³  “No.”

In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, ¹  for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. ² 

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them ¹ ?