Zephaniah 3:1-7

Revised Standard Version

³ Her officials within her
    are roaring lions;
her judges are evening wolves
    that leave nothing till the morning.
⁴ Her prophets are wanton,
    faithless men;
her priests profane what is sacred,
    they do violence to the law.
⁵ The Lord within her is righteous,
    he does no wrong;
every morning he shows forth his justice,
    each dawn he does not fail;
    but the unjust knows no shame.

⁶ “I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    so that none walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without a man, without an inhabitant.
⁷ I said, ‘Surely she will fear me,
    she will accept correction;
she will not lose sight^[a]
    of all that I have enjoined upon her.’
But all the more they were eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.”