23  But this people has a ⁱstubborn ^jand rebellious heart;

they have turned aside and gone away.

24  They do not say in their hearts,

‘Let us fear the Lord our God,

^kwho gives the rain in its season,

the autumn rain and the spring rain,

and keeps for us

the weeks appointed for the harvest.’

25  Your iniquities have turned these away,

and your sins have kept good from you.

26  For wicked men are found among my people;

they lurk like fowlers lying in wait.¹

They set a trap;

they catch men.

27  Like a cage full of birds,

their houses are full of deceit;

therefore they have become great and rich;

28  they have ^lgrown fat and sleek.

They know no bounds in deeds of evil;

they judge not with ^mjustice

the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,

and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

29  ⁿShall I not punish them for these things?

declares the Lord,

and shall I not avenge myself

on a nation such as this?”