30 “‘And I kept looking for a man* from among them who would be repairing the stone wall+ and standing in the gap+ before me in behalf of the land, in order [for me] not to bring it to ruin;+ and I found no one.
13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses,+ all this calamity—it has come upon us,+ and we have not softened the face of Jehovah our God* by turning back from our error+ and by showing insight into your trueness.+