⁶ Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?

¹³ But you have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.^(A)
You are in constant dread all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who has set himself to destroy.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?^(B)

⁸ The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?”
The experts in the law no longer knew Me,^(A)
and the rulers^(B) rebelled against Me.
The prophets prophesied by^[a] Baal^(C)
and followed useless idols.^(D)