30 “Woe^(A) to the obstinate children,”^(B)
    declares the Lord,
“to those who carry out plans that are not mine,
    forming an alliance,^(C) but not by my Spirit,
    heaping sin upon sin;

² You who practice deceit,^(A)
    your tongue plots destruction;^(B)
    it is like a sharpened razor.^(C)

¹ Why do the nations conspire^[a]
    and the peoples plot^(A) in vain?
² The kings^(B) of the earth rise up
    and the rulers band together
    against the Lord and against his anointed,^(C) saying,

2 Woe to those who plan iniquity,
    to those who plot evil^(A) on their beds!^(B)
At morning’s light they carry it out
    because it is in their power to do it.
² They covet fields^(C) and seize them,^(D)
    and houses, and take them.
They defraud^(E) people of their homes,
    they rob them of their inheritance.^(F)

⁴ No one calls for justice;^(A)
    no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely^(B) on empty arguments, they utter lies;^(C)
    they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.^(D)