¹ And I said, Hear, I pray^◦ you, O heads of Jacob, and ye captains of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?

² You who hate the good, and love the evil; robbing their skin from off them, and their muscle from off their bones;

³ and who eat the muscle of My people, and strip their skin from off them; and they burst·​·out their bones, and spread them out, as^◦ in the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the cauldron.

⁴ Then^▵ they shall cry to^▵ Jehovah, but He will not answer them; and He will hide His face from them^◦ at that^◦ time, as^◦ they have done·​·evil in their actions.

⁵ Thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who make My people stray, who bite with their teeth, and proclaim, Peace! And he who gives not a kiss^* on their mouth, against him they also sanctify war.

⁶ Therefore it shall be night for you instead of a vision; and it shall be·​·dark for you instead of divination; and the sun shall set^▵* over the prophets, and the day shall blacken over them.

⁷ And the visionaries shall be·​·ashamed, and the diviners shall blush; they shall all cloak the upper·​·lip, for there is no answer of God.

⁸ Nevertheless I^▵ am·​·full of power with^◦ the spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to tell to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

⁹ Hear this, I pray^◦ you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and captains of the house of Israel, who abominate judgment, and twist all the upright,

¹⁰ who build Zion with bloods^*, and Jerusalem with perversity:

¹¹ her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests instruct for a price, and her prophets divine for silver; and they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? Evil will not come upon us.

¹² Therefore because·​·of you shall Zion be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps^▵, and the mountain of the house as the high·​·places of the forest.