^{3 Ref} Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

^{4 Ref} Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

^{5 Ref} The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.