25 Your lawyers, doctors, scribes are useless cumberers of the ground; they are but tumors on the body of the state;
26 They toil not neither do they spin, yet they consume the profits of your marts of trade.
27 Your rulers are adulterers, extortioners and thieves, regarding not the rights of any man;
28 And robbers ply their calling in the sacred halls; the holy temple you have sold to thieves; their dens are in the sacred places set apart for prayer.
29 Hear! hear! you people of Jerusalem! Reform; turn from your evil ways or God will turn from you, and heathen from afar will come, and what is left of all your honor and your fame will pass in one short hour.
30 Prepare, Jerusalem, prepare to meet your king.
31 He said no more; he left the court and no one saw him go.
32 The priests, the doctors and the scribes were all in rage. They sought for John intent to do him harm. They found him not.
33 The common people stood in his defense; they said, The hermit speaks the truth.
34 And then the priests, the doctors and the scribes were sore afraid; they said no more; they hid themselves away.