3 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted,
to the oppressing city!
² She obeyed not the voice;
she received not correction;
she trusted not in the Lord;
she drew not near to her God.
³ Her princes within her are roaring lions;
her judges are evening wolves;
they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
⁴ Her prophets are light and treacherous persons:
her priests have polluted the sanctuary,
they have done violence to the law.
⁵ The just Lord is in the midst thereof;
he will not do iniquity:
every morning doth he bring his judgment to light,
he faileth not;
but the unjust knoweth no shame.

⁶ I have cut off the nations:
their towers are desolate;
I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:
their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man,
that there is none inhabitant.
⁷ I said, Surely thou wilt fear me,
thou wilt receive instruction;
so their dwelling should not be cut off,
howsoever I punished them:
but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.