⁷ O ^(A)you who turn justice to wormwood^[a]
    and cast down righteousness to the earth!

¹² Do horses run on rocks?
    Does one plow there^[a] with oxen?
^(A)But you have turned justice into ^(B)poison
    ^(C)and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood^[b]—

^6 (A)those who have turned back from following the Lord,
    ^(B)who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”

⁴ They utter ^(A)mere words;
    with empty^[a] oaths they make covenants;
so ^(B)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    ^(C)in the furrows of the field.

¹² Are you not ^(A)from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One?
    ^(B)We shall not die.
O Lord, ^(C)you have ordained them as a judgment,
    and you, O ^(D)Rock, have established them for reproof.
¹³ You who are ^(E)of purer eyes than to see evil
    and cannot look at wrong,
^(F)why do you idly look at traitors
    and ^(G)remain silent when the wicked swallows up
    the man more righteous than he?
¹⁴ You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
    like crawling things that have no ruler.

¹¹ Therefore because you ^(A)trample on^[a] the poor
    and you exact taxes of grain from him,
^(B)you have built houses of hewn stone,
    but you shall not dwell in them;
^(C)you have planted pleasant vineyards,
    but you shall not drink their wine.
¹² For I know how many are your transgressions
    and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who ^(D)take a bribe,
    and ^(E)turn aside the needy ^(F)in the gate.