23. But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;they have turned aside and gone away.
24. They do not say in their hearts,‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season,the autumn rain and the spring rain,and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
25. Your iniquities have turned these away,and your sins have kept good from you.
26. For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap;they catch men.
27. Like a cage full of birds,their houses are full of deceit;therefore they have become great and rich;
28. they have grown fat and sleek.They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justicethe cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29. Shall I not punish them for these things?declares the Lord,and shall I not avenge myselfon a nation such as this?”