Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash.<n id="1" /> They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says,&#8217; when the <sc>Lordsc> has not spoken.

<p class="poetry">Her<n id="1" /> leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">her priests proclaim rulings for profit,p> <p class="poetry">and her prophets read omens for pay.p> <p class="poetry">Yet they claim to trust<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is among us.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Disaster will not overtake<n id="5" /> us!&#8221;p>