1 But you, our God, are gracious and true,
2 For even if we sin, we are yours, knowing your dominion;
3 For to be acquainted with you is perfect righteousness,ᵃᵇ
4 For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s,
5 the sight of which leads fools into lust.ᶜᵈ
6 Lovers of evil things, and worthy of such hopes,
7 For a potter, kneading soft earth,
8 Also, labouring to an evil end, he moulds a vain god out of the same clay,
9 However he has anxious care,
10 His heart is ashes.
11 because he was ignorant of him who moulded him,
12 But he accounted our life to be a game,ᵉᶠ
13 For this man, beyond all others, knows that he sins,
14 But most foolish and more miserable than a baby,
15 because they even considered all the idols of the nations to be gods,
16 For a man made them,
17 But, being mortal, he makes a dead thing by the work of lawless hands;
18 Yes, and they worship the creatures that are most hateful,
19 Neither, as seen beside other creatures, are they beautiful, so that one should desire them,