Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it. 2And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely. 3O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return. 4But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. 5I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds. 6Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened. 7How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. 8They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 9Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation? 10Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's. 11For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord. 12They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine. 13The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.