34 Moreover, your skirts are stained
with the blood of the innocent poor.(A)
You did not catch them breaking and entering.(B)
But in spite of all these things
35 you claim, “I am innocent.(C)
His anger is sure to turn away from me.”
But I will certainly judge you
because you have said, “I have not sinned.”(D)
36 How unstable you are,(E)
constantly changing your ways!
You will be put to shame by Egypt(F)
just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

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34 On your clothes is found
    the lifeblood(A) of the innocent poor,
    though you did not catch them breaking in.(B)
Yet in spite of all this
35     you say, ‘I am innocent;(C)
    he is not angry with me.’
But I will pass judgment(D) on you
    because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’(E)
36 Why do you go about so much,
    changing(F) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt(G)
    as you were by Assyria.

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