25. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.
26. For among my people were found wicked men: they lay in wait as he that sets snares; they set a trap of perdition to catch men.
27. As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; thus they became great and rich.
28. They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.
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 horrible and ugly thing is committed in the land:
31. The prophets prophesied falsely, and the priests bore rule by their hands; and my people love to have it so. What will ye do in the end thereof?