The Lord says, “I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help. I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name.

All day long I opened my arms to a rebellious people. But they follow their own evil paths and their own crooked schemes, people who provoke me to my face by worshiping idols in their sacred gardens. They burn incense on pagan altars. Isaiah 65:2-3