Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood 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, because of our iniquities.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured 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 they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.