3 “He will say, ‘Listen, you leaders of Jacob,
you officials of the house of Israel!
You should know justice, should you not?—
² you who despise good and love evil,
    who tear off the skin of my people,^[a]
        along with the flesh from their bones.
³ You eat the flesh of my people,
    flaying their skin from them.
You break their bones,
    chopping them in pieces like meat^[b] for a pot,
        like meat destined for a soup kettle.’

⁴ “Then they will cry to the Lord,
    but he will not listen to them.
In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time,
    because they were so wicked in what they were doing.”