Zephaniah 3:1-3

The Voice

3 Disaster is coming to the city of rebels,
    to Jerusalem, the now defiled city of oppression.
² That city refused to listen to anyone.
    She would not take advice.
She didn’t believe in the Eternal One anymore.
    She didn’t want a close relationship with her God.
³ Her rulers remind me of roaring lions,
    out for the kill instead of protecting her people.
Her judges are a pack of wolves on the prowl at night,
Consuming what they are after
    until not one bone is left to chew on the next morning.