2 Give ear, you who have power over multitudesand lord it over throngs of peoples!
3 Because authority was given you by the Lordand sovereignty by the Most High,who shall probe your works and scrutinize your counsels!
4 Because, though you were ministers of his kingdom, you did not judge rightly,and did not keep the law,nor walk according to the will of God,
5 Terribly and swiftly he shall come against you,because severe judgment awaits the exalted—
6 For the lowly may be pardoned out of mercybut the mighty shall be mightily put to the test.
7 For the Ruler of all shows no partiality,nor does he fear greatness,Because he himself made the great as well as the small,and provides for all alike;
8 but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends.