9 Then he said: “If, now, I have found favor in your eyes, O Jehovah,* let Jehovah,* please, go along in the midst of us,+ because it is a stiff-necked people,+ and you have to forgive our error and our sin,+ and you must take us as your possession.”+
16 “And they themselves, even our forefathers, acted presumptuously+ and proceeded to harden their neck,+ and they did not listen to your commandments.
3 So copious showers are withheld,+ and not even a spring rain has occurred.+ And the forehead of a wife committing prostitution is what has become yours. You have refused to feel humiliated.+
3 O Jehovah, are not those eyes of yours toward faithfulness?+ You have struck them,+ but they did not become ill.+ You exterminated them.+ They refused to take discipline.+ They made their faces harder than a crag.+ They refused to turn back.+
4 And the sons insolent of face+ and hard of heart+—I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah* has said.’