30 “Ah, ^(A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
^(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make ^(C)an alliance,^[a] but not of my Spirit,
    that they may add sin to sin;

⁵ I will go to the great
    and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
    the justice of their God.”
^(A)But they all alike had broken the yoke;
    they had burst the bonds.

² Your ^(A)tongue plots destruction,
    like ^(B)a sharp razor, you ^(C)worker of deceit.

2 ^(A)Why do ^(B)the nations rage^[a]
    and the peoples plot in vain?
² The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and against his ^(C)Anointed, saying,

^4 (A)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    ^(B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

2 ^(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil ^(B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
² They covet fields and ^(C)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.

⁴ He ^(A)plots ^(B)trouble while on his bed;
    he sets himself in ^(C)a way that is not good;
    ^(D)he does not reject evil.