22 When I hide my face from my people,foreigners will defile my treasured place.Violent intruders will invade it; they will defile it!
23 Make a chain!The earth is full of perverted justice,the city full of violence.
24 I’ll bring up the cruelest nations,and they will seize their houses.I’ll break their proud strength,and their sanctuaries will be defiled.
25 Disaster! It has come!They seek peace, but there is none.
26 One disaster comes after another,and rumor follows rumor.They seek a vision from the prophet.Instruction disappears from the priest,and counsel from the elders.
27 The king will go into mourning,the prince will clothe himself in despair,and the hands of the land’s people will tremble.When I do to them as they have doneand judge them by their own justice,they will know that I am the Lord.