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Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city!

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

She obeyed no voice, She accepted no discipline. She did not trust in the LORD, She did not approach her God.

She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord ; she drew not near to her God.

Her leaders within her are roaring lions, Her judges are wolves at evening; They have no bones to gnaw in the morning.

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Her prophets are insolent, treacherous men; Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the Law.

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

The LORD is righteous within her; He will do no injustice. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail. But the criminal knows no shame.

The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

"I have eliminated nations; Their corner towers are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, With no one passing by; Their cities have been laid waste, Without a person, without an inhabitant.

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

"I said, 'You will certainly revere Me, You will accept discipline.' So her dwelling will not be eliminated In accordance with everything that I have stipulated for her. Instead, they were eager to corrupt all their deeds.

I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.