²⁸ Assemble to^▵ me all the elders of your tribes^◦, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call· the heavens and the earth ·to·​·testify against^◦ them.

⁸ Yea, thou hast not heard; yea, thou hast· not ·known; yea, from the first thine ear was not opened; for I knew that acting·​·treacherously thou wouldst act·​·treacherously, and that thou^◦ wast called a transgressor from the belly.