9And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.
10You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.
11And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?
12I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.
13Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.
14And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.
15For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
