24. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
25. --I, I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
26. Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own cause, that thou mayest be justified.
27. Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have rebelled against me.
28. And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches.