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?
30A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
