²¹How the faithful city 
     has become a whore! 
     She that was full of justice, 
righteousness lodged in her — 
     but now murderers! 
²²Your silver has become dross, 
     your wine is mixed with water. 
²³Your princes are rebels 
     and companions of thieves. 
Everyone loves a bribe 
     and runs after gifts. 
They do not defend the orphan, 
     and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

²⁴Therefore says the Sovereign, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: 
Ah, I will pour out my wrath on my enemies, 
     and avenge myself on my foes! 
²⁵I will turn my hand against you; 
     I will smelt away your dross as with lye 
     and remove all your alloy. 
²⁶And I will restore your judges as at the first, 
     and your counselors as at the beginning. 
Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, 
     the faithful city.

²⁷Zion shall be redeemed by justice, 
     and those in her who repent, by righteousness. 
²⁸But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, 
     and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 
²⁹For you shall be ashamed of the oaks 
     in which you delighted; 
and you shall blush for the gardens 
that you have chosen. 
³⁰For you shall be like an oak 
     whose leaf withers, 
     and like a garden without water. 
³¹The strong shall become like tinder, 
     and their work like a spark; 
they and their work shall burn together, 
     with no one to quench them.