And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Ya῾aqov, and you rulers of the house of Yisra᾽el; Is it not for you to know justice?

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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 like meat within the cauldron.

Then shall they cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoever puts nothing into their mouths, they prepare war against him.

Therefore it shall be night for you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark for you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

Then shall the seers be put to shame, and the magicians confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Ya῾aqov his transgression, and to Yisra᾽el his sin.

Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Ya῾aqov, and rulers of the house of Yisra᾽el, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity;

that build up Żiyyon with blood, and Yerushalayim with iniquity.

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priest thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil can come upon us.

Therefore shall Żiyyon for your sake be ploughed like a field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.