The Coming Judgment on Judah

“I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.

This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

The Lord within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.