¹² Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘^(A)The Lord does not see us; the Lord has ^(B)forsaken the land.’”

⁹ Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is ^(A)filled with blood and the city is ^(B)full of perversion; for ^(C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’