¹² Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ^(A)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

²³ And they will comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have done nothing ^(A)without cause that I have done in it,” says the Lord God.