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¹ And I said:
^(a)Hear, you heads of Jacob
    and rulers of the house of Israel!
^(b)Is it not for you to know justice?—
²     you ^(c)who hate the good and love the evil,
^(d)who tear the skin from off my people^[a]
    and their flesh from off their bones,
^3 (e)who eat the flesh of my people,
    and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
    and chop them up like meat in a pot,
    like flesh in a cauldron.

^4 (f)Then they will cry to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them;
^(g)he will hide his face from them at that time,
    because they have made their deeds evil.

⁵ Thus says the Lord concerning ^(h)the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
⁽ⁱ⁾who cry "Peace"
    when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
    who puts nothing into their mouths.
⁶ Therefore ^(j)it shall be night to you, without vision,
    and darkness to you, without divination.
^(k)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
    and the day shall be black over them;
^7 (l)the seers shall be disgraced,
    and the diviners put to shame;
^(m)they shall all cover their lips,
    for ⁽ⁿ⁾there is no answer from God.
⁸ But as for me, ^(o)I am filled with power,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob ^(p)his transgression
    and to Israel his sin.

^9 (q)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
    and rulers of the house of Israel,
^(r)who detest justice
    and make crooked all that is straight,
^10 (s)who build Zion with blood
    and Jerusalem with iniquity.
^11 (t)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    ^(u)its priests teach for a price;
    ^(v)its prophets practice divination for money;
^(w)yet they lean on the Lord and ^(x)say,
    "Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    ^(y)No disaster shall come upon us."
¹² Therefore because of you
    ^(z)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem ^(aa)shall become a heap of ruins,
    and ^(ab)the mountain of the house ^(ac)a wooded height.