Even of late my people are risen up like an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men who turn away from war.
I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin off from them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as if for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
The good man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
So that they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he speaks his mischievous desire: so they weave it together.