Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her. 2Though they say, As Allah lives; surely they swear falsely. 3O Allah, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Allah, nor the law of their God: 5I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Allah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased. 7How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. 8They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbour’s wife. 9Shall I not visit for these things? says Allah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10Go up on her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Allah’s. 11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Allah. 12They have denied Allah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them. 14Therefore thus says Allah, the Lord God of the universe, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 15Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Allah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, neither understand what they say. 16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men. 17They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword. 18But even in those days, says Allah, I will not make a full end with you. 19It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Allah our God done all these things to us? Then you shall say to them, Just as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. 20Declare this in the house of Yaqub, and publish it in Judah, saying, 21Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear: 22Don’t you fear me? says Allah: will you not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. 23But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Allah our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. 25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. 26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. 27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grew rich. 28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge. 29Shall I not visit for these things? says Allah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 30An astonishing and horrible thing is happen in the land: 31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?