Israel’s restoration is due, not to her own merits, but to the Lord’s free grace

22 Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob,

nor wearied yourself about me, O Israel.

23 You have not brought unto me

burnt offerings of sheep,

nor did honour me with your sacrifice.

I burdened you not with offerings,

nor wearied you with frankincense;

24 you brought me no sweet cane with your money,

you sated me not with the fat of your sacrifice.

But you by your sins have burdened me,

and through your transgressions have wearied me.

25 Yet I am he

who blots out your transgressions;

your sins I remember no more.

26 Call to my mind your merits,

let us urge our several pleas;

reckon up all that you can,

to prove yourself in the right.

27 Your ancient sire was a sinner,

your prophets were rebels against me,

28 my Temple your princess profaned;

so Jacob I gave to destruction,

and Israel to reviling.

44 Yet hear now, Jacob my servant,

and Israel, whom I have chosen;

2 thus says the Lord your maker,

who formed you and helped you from birth:

fear not, Jacob my servant;

Jeshurun, whom I have chosen:

3 for water I will pour on the thirsty,

and rills on the ground that is dry,

On your sons I will pour out my spirit,

my blessing upon their offspring:

4 and then they will grow like the grass among waters,

like willows by water-courses.

5 And one will declare, ‘I belong to the Lord;’

Another will call himself Jacob:

another will write on his hand, ‘To the Lord,’

and add to his own name the surname of Israel.