24. And they have not said in their heart, `Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'
25. Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.
26. For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap--men they capture.
27. As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
28. They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless--and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.
29. For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?
30. An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.
31. The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved [it] so, And what do they at its latter end?