19. if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
20. But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21. How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
22. Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.
23. Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.
24. Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.
25. And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.
26. And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.
27. Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.
28. And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
29. For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.
30. When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.
31. And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.