¹⁴ But in the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen a horrible thing:
^(A)they commit adultery and walk in lies;
    ^(B)they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    so that no one turns from his evil;
^(C)all of them have become like Sodom to me,
    ^(D)and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

^10 (A)For the land is full of adulterers;
    ^(B)because of the curse ^(C)the land mourns,
    and ^(D)the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
^(E)Their course is evil,
    and their might is not right.

^31 (A)the prophets prophesy falsely,
    and the priests rule at their direction;
^(B)my people love to have it so,
    but what will you do when the end comes?

^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.
⁵ They hatch adders' eggs;
    they weave the spider's web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
    and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
^6 (C)Their webs will not serve as clothing;
    men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds of violence are in their hands.
^7 (D)Their feet run to evil,
    and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.
⁸ The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
    ^(E)no one who treads on them knows peace.

¹² At that time ^(A)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
    and I will punish the men
^(B)who are complacent,^{[a]
    (C)}those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
    nor will he do ill.’