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¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?² you who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh inside the cauldron.⁴ Then they shall cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them; yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, according to as they have wrought evil in their doings.⁵ Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoever does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:⁶ Therefore it shall be night to you, that you shall have no vision; and it shall be dark to you, that you shall not have fortune-telling; and the sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.⁷ And the seers shall be put to shame, and the fortune-tellers confounded; yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

⁸ But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.⁹ Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who are disgusted by justice, and pervert all equity.¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.¹¹ The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for wages, and the prophets thereof tell the future for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Is not Yahweh in the midst of us? no evil shall come on us.¹² Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.