Micah 7:2-4

New Century Version

² All of the faithful people are gone;
    there is not one good person left in this country.
Everyone is waiting to kill someone;
    everyone is trying to trap someone else.
³ With both hands they are doing evil.
    Rulers ask for money,
    and judges’ decisions are bought for a price.
Rich people tell what they want,
    and they get it.
⁴ Even the best of them is like a thornbush;
    the most honest of them is worse than a prickly plant.
The day that your watchmen^[a] warned you about has come.
    Now they will be confused.