1. Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
2. She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.
3. Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
4. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
5. Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his justice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
6. I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
7. I said, Only fear thou me; receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
8. Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
9. For then will I turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent.