20. Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:
21. Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
22. Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.
23. But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
24. And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.
25. Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26. For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
27. As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
28. They are grown gross and fat: andhave most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of the poor.
29. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
30. Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.
31. The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?