¹⁵ men whose ^(A)paths are crooked,
    ^(B)and who are ^(C)devious in their ways.

⁵ But those who ^(A)turn aside to their ^(B)crooked ways
    the Lord will lead away with ^(C)evildoers!
    ^(D)Peace be upon Israel!

⁸ The way of the guilty ^(A)is crooked,
    but the conduct of the pure is upright.

⁵ They have dealt corruptly with him;
    they are no longer his children ^(A)because they are blemished;
    they are ^(B)a crooked and twisted generation.

⁸ The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
    ^(A)no one who treads on them knows peace.

⁸ And now, go, ^(A)write it before them on a tablet
    and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
    as a witness forever.^[a]
9 (B)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;
^10 (C)who say to ^(D)the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us ^(E)smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,
¹¹ leave the way, turn aside from the path,
    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
¹² Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Because you despise this word
    and trust in ^(F)oppression and perverseness
    and rely on them,
¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you
    ^(G)like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
    whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;