A warning to unjust judges

10 Terrible things will happen to you judges who are unjust

and who make unfair laws.

2 You refuse to help poor people,

and you do not allow them to get the things that they should get.

You allow people to steal things from widows

and do unfair things to orphans.

3 When I punish you

by sending people from distant lands to cause you to experience disasters,

◄to whom will you run to get help?/there will be no one who can help you.► [RHQ]

Your valuable possessions will certainly not be safe [RHQ] anywhere.

4 You will be able only to stumble along as you are taken away with other prisoners,

or else your corpses will lie on the ground with others who have been killed.

But even after that happens,

Yahweh will still be very angry with you.

He will still be ready to strike you again with his fist.