31I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob,and rulers of the house of Israel:Isn’t it for you to know justice?+2You who hate the good,and love the evil;who tear off their skin,and their flesh from off their bones;+3who 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 meat within the cauldron.+4Then they will cry to Yahweh,but he will not answer them.Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,because they made their deeds evil.”+5Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:+6“Therefore night is over you, with no vision,and it is dark to you, that you may not divine;and the sun will go down on the prophets,and the day will be black over them.+7The seers shall be disappointed,and the diviners confounded.Yes, they shall all cover their lips;for there is no answer from God.”+8But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit,and of judgment, and of might,to declare to Jacob his disobedience,and to Israel his sin.+9Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,and rulers of the house of Israel,who abhor justice,and pervert all equity.+10They build up Zion with blood,and Jerusalem with iniquity.+11Her leaders judge for bribes,and her priests teach for a price,and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,“Isn’t Yahweh among us?No disaster will come on us.”+12Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.+Footnotes (1)
a3:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
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