“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you ^(A)rulers of the house of Israel:
^(B)Is it not for you to know justice?
² You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from ^[a]My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
³ Who also ^(C)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
^(D)Like flesh in the caldron.”

⁴ Then ^(E)they will cry to the Lord,
But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
Because they have been evil in their deeds.

⁶ “Will not all these ^(A)take up a proverb against him,
And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
‘Woe to him who increases
What is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with ^[a]many pledges’?

²⁰ Shall ^(A)the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law,
Have fellowship with You?
²¹ They gather together against the life of the righteous,
And condemn ^(B)innocent blood.