^9 (A)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
    ^(B)to ^(C)set his nest on high,
    to be safe from the reach of harm!
¹⁰ You have devised shame for your house
    ^(D)by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
¹¹ For ^(E)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.

^12 (F)“Woe to him ^(G)who builds a town with blood
    and founds a city on iniquity!

^13 (A)“Woe to him who builds his house by ^(B)unrighteousness,
    and his upper rooms by injustice,
^(C)who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
    and does not give him his wages,
¹⁴ who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
    with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
    paneling it with cedar
    and ^(D)painting it with vermilion.
¹⁵ Do you think you are a king
    because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
    and ^(E)do justice and righteousness?
    ^(F)Then it was well with him.
^16 (G)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
    ^(H)then it was well.
Is not this ^(I)to know me?
    declares the Lord.
¹⁷ But you have eyes and heart
    only for your dishonest gain,
^(J)for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.”

^3 (A)Her officials within her
    are roaring lions;
her judges are ^(B)evening wolves
    that leave nothing till the morning.