And He looked, and there was no man, and He observed, and there was none to help; so He defended them with His arm, and established [them] with [His] mercy.

Run about in the streets of Jerusalem and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find [one], if there is anyone that executes judgment, and seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.

I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God. But, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of My anger, to accomplish [it]. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.

For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.

therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident in this respect;

Let him not think that he shall endure, for his end shall be vanity.

Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies. If wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.

Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.

But seeing you have trusted in lying words, whereby you shall not be profited;

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

They only took counsel to set at nought my honor. I ran in thirst; with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.

We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God; we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

And on it He has fitted the instruments of death; He has completed His arrows for the raging ones.

For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.