7 As a cistern keeps its waters cool, so she has kept her badness cool. Violence and despoiling are heard in her;+ sickness and plague are before my face constantly.

10 And they have not known how to do what is straightforward,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “those who are storing up violence+ and despoiling in their dwelling towers.”’

12 For her own rich men have become full of violence, and her own inhabitants have spoken falsehood,+ and their tongue is tricky in their mouth.+