3 Doom, obstinate one,
        the defiled one,
        the violent city.
² She listened to no voice;
        she accepted no discipline.
She didn’t trust in the Lord,
        nor did she draw near to her God.
³ The princes in her midst are roaring lions.
        Her judges are wolves of the evening;
        they leave nothing for the morning.
⁴ Her prophets are reckless, men of treachery.
        Her priests pollute that which is holy;
        they do violence to the Instruction.
⁵ The Lord is righteous in her midst.
He does nothing unjust.
        Morning by morning he renders justice,
        but the unrighteous one knows no shame.
⁶ I will cut off nations;
        their towers will be destroyed;
        I will devastate their streets.
            No one will pass through.
        Their cities will be laid waste.
            There will be no person, no inhabitant left.
⁷ I said, “Surely, she will fear me;
            she will take instruction
        so that her habitation won’t be cut off^[a]
            because of everything I did to her.”
However, they rose early to corrupt their deeds.