¹⁵ For you said, ‘We have made a covenant with Death,
and we have an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming catastrophe^[a] passes through,^(A)
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.’

³ For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
and your tongues mutter injustice.
⁴ No one makes claims justly;
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.^(A)

¹⁴ Among the prophets of Jerusalem also
I saw a horrible thing:^(A)
They commit adultery and walk in lies.
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,
and none turns his back on evil.
They are all like Sodom^(B) to me;
Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.