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You change the justice of the courts into something unfair.
    You reject what is right.

God is the one who made the star groups Pleiades and Orion.
    He changes darkness into the morning light.
    And he changes the day into the dark night.
He calls for the waters of the sea
    to pour out on the earth.
    The Lord is his name.
He destroys the protected city.
    And he ruins the strong, walled city.

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There are those who turn justice into bitterness(A)
    and cast righteousness(B) to the ground.(C)

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,(D)
    who turns midnight into dawn(E)
    and darkens day into night,(F)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.(G)
With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold
    and brings the fortified city to ruin.(H)

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