Zephaniah 3:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴Its prophets are reckless,
    faithless persons;
its priests have profaned what is sacred,
    they have done violence to the law.
⁵The Lord within it is righteous;
    he does no wrong.
Every morning he renders his judgement,
    each dawn without fail;
    but the unjust knows no shame.

⁶I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without people, without inhabitants.

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