JPS_ASV_Byz(i)
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
26 For among My people are found wicked men; they pry, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;
28 They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:
31 The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, and the priests bear rule at their beck; and My people love to have it so; What then will ye do in the end thereof?