24. You do not say to yourselves, "Let us have respect for the Lord our God. He sends rain in the fall and the spring. He promises us that the harvest will come at the same time each year."
25. But the things you have done wrong have robbed you of those gifts. Your sins have kept those good things far away from you.'
26. "Jeremiah, some of my people are evil. They hide and wait just as people hide to catch birds. They set traps for men.
27. A hunter uses tricks to fill his cage with birds. And my people have filled their houses with a lot of goods. They have become rich and powerful.
28. They have grown fat and heavy. There is no limit to the evil things they do. In court they do not state the case of children whose fathers have died. They do not stand up for poor people.