The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.
Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Blessings `are' for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.
Whoso is pursuing righteousness and kindness, Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
And I have cast you from before My face, As I have cast out all your brethren, The whole seed of Ephraim.
His father -- because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which `is' not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity.
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,