2
She listens to no voice, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD, she does not draw near to her God.
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.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.