Judgment of Jerusalem and the Nations

3 Woe to you, O rebellious and defiled one!

The oppressing city!

2 She listens to no voice;

she does not accept correction.

In Yahweh she does not trust;

to her God she does not draw near.

3 Her officials in her midst are roaring lions;

her judges are evening wolves;

they leave nothing until the morning.

4 Her prophets are arrogant men of treachery;

her priests have defiled that which is holy;

they do violence to the law.

5 Yahweh is righteous in her midst;

he does not do wickedness.

⌊Morning by morning⌋a he renders his judgment;

at dawn he does not fail,

but an evil one knows no shame.

6 “I have cut off nations;

their strongholds are deserted.

I have laid waste their streets,

so that none pass through.

Their cities have been destroyed

and are without a man, without an inhabitant.

7 I have said, ‘Surely she will fear me;

she will accept discipline.

Then her dwelling place will not be cut down,

nor all that I have brought upon her.’

Surely they rise early;

they make all their deeds corrupt.