1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: I have remembered you, pitying your soul, pitying your youth, and the love of your espousals, when you followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.

3Israel is holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his increase: all those who devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.

7And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: ad when you entered in, you defiled my land, and made my gift an abomination.

8The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and those who held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

12Be astonished, OH you heavens, at this, and you gates thereof, be very desolate, says the Lord.

13For my people have done two evils. They have left me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

8OH how have you multiplied your mercy, OH God! But the people shall put their trust under the covert of your wings.

9They shall be inebriated with the plenty of your house; and you shall make them drink of the torrent of your pleasure.

10For with you is the fountain of life; and in your light we shall see light.

11Extend your mercy to them that know you, and your righteousness to them that are right in heart.

10And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest you to them in parables?

11Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

12For the one who has, to him shall be given, and he shall abound: but the one who has not, from him shall be taken away that also which he has.

13Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who says: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive.

15For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

16But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

17For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them, and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.