Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—