“As for the prophets
    who lead my people astray,^(A)
they proclaim ‘peace’^(B)
    if they have something to eat,
but prepare to wage war against anyone
    who refuses to feed them.
⁶ Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
    and darkness, without divination.^(C)
The sun will set for the prophets,^(D)
    and the day will go dark for them.^(E)
7 The seers will be ashamed^(F)
    and the diviners disgraced.^(G)
They will all cover^(H) their faces^(I)
    because there is no answer from God.^(J)”
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,
    to Israel his sin.^(K)

⁹ Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
    and distort all that is right;^(L)
10 who build^(M) Zion with bloodshed,^(N)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.^(O)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,^(P)
    her priests teach for a price,^(Q)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.^(R)
Yet they look^(S) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”^(T)
12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(U)
    the temple^(V) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(W)

the mountain^(Y) of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,^(Z)
    and peoples will stream to it.^(AA)

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,^(AB)
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.^(AC)
He will teach us^(AD) his ways,^(AE)
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law^(AF) will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
³ He will judge between many peoples
    and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.^(AG)
They will beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.^(AH)
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
    nor will they train for war^(AI) anymore.^(AJ)
4 Everyone will sit under their own vine
    and under their own fig tree,^(AK)
and no one will make them afraid,^(AL)
    for the Lord Almighty has spoken.^(AM)
5 All the nations may walk
    in the name of their gods,^(AN)
but we will walk in the name of the Lord
    our God for ever and ever.^(AO)

“I will gather the lame;^(AP)
    I will assemble the exiles^(AQ)
    and those I have brought to grief.^(AR)
7 I will make the lame my remnant,^(AS)
    those driven away a strong nation.^(AT)
The Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion^(AU)
    from that day and forever.^(AV)
8 As for you, watchtower of the flock,
    stronghold^[a] of Daughter Zion,
the former dominion will be restored^(AW) to you;
    kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.^(AX)”

⁹ Why do you now cry aloud—
    have you no king^[b](AY)?
Has your ruler^[c] perished,
    that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?^(AZ)