25. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
26. For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
27. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28. They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29. shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30. A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land;