O land, land, land! Listen to what the LORD has said:

You are placed under a curse and can no longer farm the soil. It has soaked up your brother's blood as if it had opened its mouth to receive it when you killed him.

Don't forgive the evil they do and don't forget their sins, for they have insulted us who are building."

The LORD is coming from his heavenly dwelling place to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The murders that were secretly committed on the earth will be revealed, and the ground will no longer hide those who have been killed.

There was murder in the city, but the blood was not spilled on the ground where the dust could hide it; it was spilled on a bare rock.

When trouble comes, will God hear their cries?

If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.

But God has indeed heard me; he has listened to my prayer.

"When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.

When you pray, I will answer you. When you call to me, I will respond. "If you put an end to oppression, to every gesture of contempt, and to every evil word;

if you give food to the hungry and satisfy those who are in need, then the darkness around you will turn to the brightness of noon.

And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.

Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.