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The Utter Corruption of God’s People

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
    look around and take note!
Search its squares and see
    if you can find one person
who acts justly
    and seeks truth—
so that I may pardon Jerusalem.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.1 Heb it

11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? I, too, am watching, says the Lord.(A)

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For thus says the Lord of hosts:
Cut down her trees;
    cast up a siege ramp against Jerusalem.
This is the city that must be punished;[a]
    there is nothing but oppression within her.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.6 Or the city of license