Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.
That the generation to come might know (them), even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell (them) to their children,
He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, (Where) I heard a language that I knew not.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; (but) Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.