27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: thereby they are become great and waxen rich.

28 They are waxen fat and shining: they do overpass the deeds of the wicked: (A)they execute no judgment, no not the judgment of the fatherless: yet they [a]prosper, though they execute no judgment for the poor.

29 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:28 They feel not the plague of God for it.

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