26 “‘For among my people there have been found wicked men.+ They keep peering, as when birdcatchers crouch down.+ They have set a ruinous [trap].* It is men* that they catch.

2 The loyal one* has perished from the earth,* and among mankind* there is no upright one.+ All of them, for bloodshed they lie in wait.+ They hunt, everyone his own brother, with a dragnet.+