Isaiah 5:23-25

New International Reader's Version

²³ How terrible for those
    who take money to set guilty people free!
How terrible for those
    who don’t treat good people fairly!
²⁴ Flames of fire burn up straw.
    Dry grass sinks down into those flames.
Evil people will be like plants whose roots rot away.
    They will be like flowers that are blown away like dust.
That’s because they have said no to the law of the Lord who rules over all.
    They have turned against the message of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵ So the Lord is angry with his people.
    He raises his hand against them and strikes them down.
The mountains shake.
    The bodies of dead people lie in the streets like trash.