Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."