Have you not copied their behavior ¹  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ²  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

I thought, ¹  ‘Certainly you will respect ²  me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home ³  would not be destroyed ⁴  by all the punishments I have threatened. ⁵  But they eagerly sinned in everything they did. ⁶ 

A crooked witness ¹  scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours ²  iniquity.

“For ¹  no good tree bears bad ²  fruit, nor again ³  does a bad tree bear good fruit,

With many other words he testified ¹  and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse ²  generation!”

After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, ¹  if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind ²  and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him, ³ 

For I know that after I die you will totally ¹  corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly ²  before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.” ³ 

If you don’t inform me of the dream, there is only one thing that is going to happen to you. ¹  For you have agreed among yourselves to report to me something false and deceitful ²  until such time as things might change. So tell me the dream, and I will have confidence ³  that you can disclose its interpretation.”

I saw something else on earth: ¹  In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, ²  there was wickedness.

I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes? ¹ 

When a leader died, the next generation ¹  would again ²  act more wickedly than the previous one. ³  They would follow after other gods, worshiping them ⁴  and bowing down to them. They did not give up ⁵  their practices or their stubborn ways.

The sons of Eli were wicked men. ¹  They did not recognize the Lord’s authority. ² 

My spirit is broken, ¹  my days have faded out, ²  the grave ³  awaits me.

who says to a king, ¹  ‘Worthless man’ ²  and to nobles, ‘Wicked men,’

They mock ¹  and say evil things; ²  they proudly threaten violence. ³ 

Cruel rulers ¹  are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws. ² 

to deliver ¹  you from the way of the wicked, ²  from those ³  speaking perversity, ⁴ 

A worthless and wicked person ¹  walks around saying perverse ²  things; ³ 

The plans ¹  of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ² 

Surely oppression ¹  can turn a wise person into a fool; ²  likewise, ³  a bribe corrupts ⁴  the heart. ⁵