Because I am innocent - Rather, "But I am innocent," or, "I am acquitted." Those bloodstains cannot be on my skirts, because now, in King Jo…

Yet you say ... —Once again we have the equivocating plea of the accused. She takes up the word that had been used by the accuser:…

Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

That is the great perversion at the heart of the conflict betwee…

The Prophet here shows that the Jews possessed such a brazen front that they could not be led by any admonitions to feel any shame. Even though the…

Yet you say, because I am innocent

Or, "that I am innocent"; though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, …

The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…

^2:36a How utterly vile you have become by repeating the same ways!

1. Here, he accuses them of crimes against their neighb…