⁷ As a well pours out its water,
    so she pours out her wickedness.
Violence^(A) and destruction^(B) resound in her;
    her sickness and wounds are ever before me.

²³ “‘Prepare chains!
    For the land is full of bloodshed,^(A)
    and the city is full of violence.^(B)

¹¹ Violence^(A) has arisen,^[a]
    a rod to punish the wicked.
None of the people will be left,
    none of that crowd—
none of their wealth,
    nothing of value.^(B)

²⁰ But the wicked^(A) are like the tossing sea,^(B)
    which cannot rest,
    whose waves cast up mire^(C) and mud.

⁹ Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
    and distort all that is right;^(A)
10 who build^(B) Zion with bloodshed,^(C)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.^(D)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,^(E)
    her priests teach for a price,^(F)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.^(G)
Yet they look^(H) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”^(I)
12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(J)
    the temple^(K) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(L)

“Listen, you leaders^(A) of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
²     you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;^(B)
3 who eat my people’s flesh,^(C)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;^(D)
who chop^(E) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?^(F)”