Jeremiah 5:23-31

²³‘But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
They have turned aside and departed.
²⁴‘They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear the Lord our God,
Who gives rain in its season,
Both the autumn rain and the spring rain,
Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest.”
²⁵‘Your iniquities have turned these away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.
²⁶‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers lying in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
²⁷‘Like a cage full of birds,
So their houses are full of deceit;
Therefore they have become great and rich.
²⁸‘They are fat, they are sleek,
They also excel in deeds of wickedness;
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper;
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
²⁹‘Shall I not punish these people?’ declares the Lord,
‘On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?’

³⁰“An appalling and horrible thing
Has happened in the land:
³¹The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?