3:1 The filthy,
the city filled with oppressors is finished!
3:2 She is disobedient;
she refuses correction.
She does not trust the Lord;
she does not seek the advice of
3:3 Her princes
her rulers
who completely devour their prey by morning.
3:4 Her prophets are proud;
they are deceitful men.
Her priests defile what is holy;
they break God’s laws.
3:5 The just Lord resides
he commits no unjust acts.
Every morning he reveals
At dawn he appears without fail.
Yet the unjust know no shame.
3:6 “I destroyed
their walled cities
I turned their streets into ruins;
no one passes through them.
Their cities are desolate;
no one lives there.
3:7 I thought,
Now you will accept correction!’
If she had done so, her home
by all the punishments I have threatened.
But they eagerly sinned
in everything they did.