Isaiah 65:12

Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

Therefore will I number you to the sword. "Number you" - doom you: alluding to the "number," as Meni () means. Retribution in kind, the punishment answering to the sin (cf. ).

Because when I called, ye did not answer. "I called," though 'none had called' upon me (), yet even then none 'answered' (). Contrast with this God and His people's mutual fellowship in prayer ().