25. Your wickedness has deprived you of these wonderful blessings.Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.
26. “Among my people are wicked menwho lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind.They continually set trapsto catch people.
27. Like a cage filled with birds,their homes are filled with evil plots.And now they are great and rich.
28. They are fat and sleek,and there is no limit to their wicked deeds.They refuse to provide justice to orphansand deny the rights of the poor.
29. Should I not punish them for this?” says the lord.“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?
30. A horrible and shocking thinghas happened in this land—
31. the prophets give false prophecies,and the priests rule with an iron hand.Worse yet, my people like it that way!But what will you do when the end comes?