² You hate good and love evil.
You tear off people’s skin^(A)
and strip their flesh from their bones.
³ You eat the flesh^(B) of my people
after you strip their skin from them
and break their bones.
You chop them up^(C)
like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”

² Godly people have vanished from the land;^(A)
there is no one upright among the people.^(B)
All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;^(C)
they hunt each other with a net.^(D)
3 Both hands are good^(E) at accomplishing evil:
the official and the judge demand a bribe;^(F)
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.