“‘ Your hands shaped me and made me. So are you going to destroy me now?Remember, you molded me like clay. So are you going to turn me back into dust?Didn’t you pour me out like milk? Didn’t you form me like cheese?Didn’t you put skin and flesh on me? Didn’t you sew me together with bones and muscles?You gave me life. You were kind to me. You took good care of me. You watched over me.
People of Judah, all of us have one Father. One God created us. So why do we break the covenant the Lord made with our people of long ago? We do this by being unfaithful to one another.
We belong to the same family lines as the rest of our people. Our children are as good as theirs. But we’ve had to sell them off as slaves. Some of our daughters have already been made slaves. But we can’t do anything about it. That’s because our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”
Share your food with hungry people. Provide homeless people with a place to stay. Give naked people clothes to wear. Provide for the needs of your own family.
How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well.None of my bones was hidden from you when you made me inside my mother’s body. That place was as dark as the deepest parts of the earth. When you were putting me together there,your eyes saw my body even before it was formed. You planned how many days I would live. You wrote down the number of them in your book before I had lived through even one of them.
Does it make you happy when you crush me? Does it please you to turn your back on what you have made? While you do those things, you smile on the plans of sinful people!
