21. ‘Hear this now, O foolish people without heart, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not:
22. ‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares יהוה. ‘Do you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, by an everlasting law, and it does not pass over it? Though its waves toss to and fro, they are not able; though they roar, they do not pass over it.
23. ‘But this people has a backsliding and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and gone away.
24. ‘And they do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear יהוה our Elohim, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He guards for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”
25. ‘Your crookednesses have turned these away, and your sins have kept the good from you.
26. ‘For among My people are found wrong men who lie in wait as one who sets snares. They have set up a trap, they catch men.
27. ‘As a cage is filled with birds, so their houses are filled with deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.
28. ‘They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.
29. ‘Would I not punish them for this?’ declares יהוה. ‘Would I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?’
30. “An astounding and horrible matter has come to be in the land: