^4 (A)No one sues righteously and ^(B)no one pleads ^[a]honestly.
They ^(C)trust in confusion and speak lies;
They ^(D)conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.
⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and ^(E)weave the spider’s web;
The one who eats of their eggs dies,
And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.
⁶ Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they ^(F)cover themselves with their works;
Their ^(G)works are works of wrongdoing,
And an ^(H)act of violence is in their ^[b]hands.
^7 (I)Their feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed innocent blood;
^(J)Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,
Devastation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They do not know the ^(K)way of peace,
And there is ^(L)no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
^(M)Whoever walks on ^[c]them does not know peace.

¹⁰ For the land is full of ^(A)adulterers;
For the land ^(B)mourns because of the curse.
The ^(C)pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course is evil
And their might is not right.
¹¹ “For ^(D)both prophet and priest are defiled;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
¹² “Therefore their way will be like ^(E)slippery paths to them,
They will be driven away into the ^(F)gloom and fall down in it;
For I will bring ^(G)disaster upon them,
The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.