"Why did my people fail to respond when I went to them to save them? Why did they not answer when I called? Am I too weak to save them? I can dry up the sea with a command and turn rivers into a desert, so that the fish in them die for lack of water.

It will be your fate to die a violent death, because you did not answer when I called you or listen when I spoke. You chose to disobey me and do evil.

So I will bring disaster upon them---the very things they are afraid of---because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil."

You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.

They will feel all the force of my anger. I will not spare them or show them any mercy. They will shout prayers to me as loud as they can, but I will not listen to them."

"But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds

and made their hearts as hard as rock. Because they would not listen to the teaching which I sent through the prophets who lived long ago, I became very angry.

But the invited guests paid no attention and went about their business: one went to his farm, another to his store,

while others grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty.

Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape, then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!

His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, "I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven as well."

You hide them in the safety of your presence from the plots of others; in a safe shelter you hide them from the insults of their enemies.

Reach out your hand to heal, and grant that wonders and miracles may be performed through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."

But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people."