² How long will you judge unjustly,
And ^(A)show partiality to the wicked? Selah

58 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
² No, in heart you work wickedness;
You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

⁹ Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And ^[a]pervert all equity,
^10 (A)Who build up Zion with ^(B)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
^11 (C)Her heads judge for a bribe,
^(D)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for ^[b]money.
^(E)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
¹² Therefore because of you
Zion shall be ^(F)plowed like a field,
^(G)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And ^(H)the mountain of the ^[c]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.

¹⁹ Yet He ^(A)is not partial to princes,
Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor;
For ^(B)they are all the work of His hands.