Berean Standard Bible
- 1 Then I said: "Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
- 2 You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
- 3 You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron."
- 4 Then they will cry out to Yahweh, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
- 5 This is what Yahweh says: "As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
- 6 Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
- 7 Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God."
- 8 As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of Yahweh, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
- 9 Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
- 10 who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon Yahweh, saying, "Is not Yahweh among us? No disaster can come upon us."
- 12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
