17. Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18. Come now, and let us reason together,
19. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
20. But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword:
21. How has the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:
23. Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
24. Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel,