(A)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(B)her priests (C)profane what is holy;
    they do violence to the law.
The Lord within her (D)is righteous;
    he does no injustice;
every morning he shows forth his justice;
    each dawn he does not fail;
    but (E)the unjust knows no shame.

(F)“I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    (G)so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without a man, without an inhabitant.

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