They crush your people, Lord, hurting those you claim as your own.
Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.
If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!” So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.
For they have devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness.
How dare you crush my people, grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?” demands the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
What is this?” asks the Lord. “Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is blasphemed all day long.
“But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.”
“You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and drained us of strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.
if they twist justice in the courts— doesn’t the Lord see all these things?
Fathers and mothers are treated with contempt. Foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed among you.
And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days.”
I could see that she was drunk—drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.