1Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
2She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.
3Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
4Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
5The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
6I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.
7I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.
