And your covenant with death shall be covered over, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overwhelming scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trampled down by it.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the cover is too narrow to wrap oneself in it.

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have despised this Word, and trust in oppression and perversity, and lean on them;

And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces. He shall not spare, so that there shall not be found in the fragments of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.

whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust as a spider's house.

He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure.

Woe to the rebellious children, says Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of Me; and who pour out drink offerings, but not of My Spirit; that they sweep away sin after sin;

I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not be of any benefit to you.

But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

even the righteousness of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference;

just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works:

blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not account sin.

Because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked;

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold an outcry!

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Indeed, in heart you work injustice; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

As a fountain keeps fresh its waters, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and devastation is heard in her; before Me continually are sickness and wounds.

Violence has risen up into a staff of wickedness; none of them shall remain, none of their multitude, none of their abundance, nor any eminent among them.

Make a chain, for the land is filled with bloody judgments, and the city is full of violence.

For they do not know to do right, declares Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near,

Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Therefore thus says Jehovah: Behold, I am devising evil against this family, from which you shall not remove your necks; nor shall you walk haughtily, for this is an evil time.

And I said, Hear now, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know justice.

who also eat the flesh of My people, and flay their skin off from them; and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh in the kettle.

Thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who mislead My people, who bite with their teeth and call out, Peace! And whoever does not put anything into their mouth, they even prepare a war against him.

And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded, all of them; yea, they shall cover their mustache, for there is no answer from God.

Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money; yet they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come upon us.

For her rich ones are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

O Jehovah, how long shall I cry for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, Violence! But You do not save.

On account of this the law has become feeble, and justice does not continue to go forth. For the wicked surrounds the righteous, so justice goes forth, perverted.

And I will punish all those who leap on the threshold in that day, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.

Her prophets are wanton, treacherous people; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.