3:1 Then I said: Listen now, heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
3:2 You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;
3:3 you who have eaten the flesh of My people, and have flayed their skin from them, and broken their bones in pieces; who have chopped them up like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the cauldron.
3:4 Then they will cry out to the Lord, but He will not answer them; He will hide His face from them at that time, because they have wrought evil deeds.
3:5 Thus says the Lord: Regarding the prophets who mislead My people— the ones who have something to eat proclaim “Peace,” but if one does not feed them, then they prepare for war against him.
3:6 Therefore you will have night without vision, and you will have darkness without divination; the sun will set upon the prophets, and black upon them will be the day.
3:7 The seers will be shamed and the diviners disgraced, and they will all cover their beards, for there is no answer from God.
3:8 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
3:9 Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and warp all that is straight,
3:10 who build Zion with bloodguilt and Jerusalem with wickedness.
3:11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet upon the Lord they lean, saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.”
3:12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.
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