<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Yet your people<n id="1" /> say, &#8216;The behavior<n id="2" /> of the Lord is not right,&#8217;<n id="3" /> when it is their behavior that is not right.

Yet the house of Israel says, &#8216;The Lord&#8217;s conduct is unjust!&#8217; Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?p>

They will say, &#8220;This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.&#8221;

They will sing this lament over you:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;How you have perished &#8211; you have vanished<n id="2" /> from the seas,p> <p class="poetry">O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,p> <p class="poetry">she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!<n id="3" />p>