14 So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed in one day.
15 Elders and the respectable are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail.
16 And the leaders of this people were misleading them, and those who were led were confused.
17 Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth was speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand is stretched out.
18 For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.
19 The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. People had no compassion toward each other.
20 They devoured on the right but still were hungry and devoured on the left but they were not satisfied. Each one devoured the flesh of his arm,