23But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
24And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
25Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
26For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
27As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
28They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
29Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
