15. For thus declares the high and exalted One who dwells forever, whose Name is set-apart, “I dwell in the high and set-apart place, with him who has a bruised and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of bruised ones.
16. “For I would not strive forever, nor am I wroth forever, for the spirit would grow faint before Me, even the beings I have made.
17. “For the crookedness of his unfair gain I was wroth and I smote him. I hid Myself and was wroth, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
18. “I have seen his ways, but now I heal him, and I lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners,