[1] Then I said: Listen now, heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice? [2] You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones; [3] you who have eaten the flesh of My people, and have flayed their skin from them, and broken their bones in pieces; who have chopped them up like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the cauldron. [4] Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them; He will hide His face from them at that time, because they have wrought evil deeds. [5] Thus says the LORD: Regarding the prophets who mislead My people- the ones who have something to eat proclaim "Peace," but if one does not feed them, then they prepare for war against him. [6] Therefore you will have night without vision, and you will have darkness without divination; the sun will set upon the prophets, and black upon them will be the day. [7] The seers will be shamed and the diviners disgraced, and they will all cover their beards, for there is no answer from God. [8] But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. [9] Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and warp all that is straight, [10] who build Zion with bloodguilt and Jerusalem with wickedness. [11] Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet upon the LORD they lean, saying, "Is not the LORD in our midst? Evil will not come upon us." [12] Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.
