By whose book? satire

2 Peter 2:9 New English Translation (NET Bible)

9 —if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment …

Rules of darkness most surely known by the name

Taking places highly selected in land’s government

Smiling faces with glassy eyes showing the game

That evil is playing with the lot to their detriment

Only the power of God can withstand that onslaught

Although the toll seems to take unmeasurable pains

It seems that destiny will cover just the lonesome thought

Of them who accept Jesus and count this as their gain

Pretty suits and affluence crawling in their palaces

Princes of this world counting their dark blessings

Daily bread and desire are filled by hidden fallacies

As they swim in the mire of their second-guessing

Swallowing iniquity and digesting it in pleasure

Power and greed for desert in uncertain harmony

No one here to trust now as they take by measure

All that they hunger for towards their dark destiny

Products of sin and depravity well-understood by mankind

Prepared for the final showdown in the near future not too far

Completely without vision just being led by the “informed” blind

To invest in everlasting agony without a drop from their favorite bar