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Israels ledare anklagas

Lyssna, ni Israels ledare! Ni borde kunna skilja på rätt och orätt,

men ni hatar det goda och älskar det onda. Ni misshandlar mitt folk.

Ni utnyttjar dem och lever på dem

för att sedan vända er till Herren under svåra tider! Räknar ni verkligen med att han ska lyssna? Nej, han ska vända sig bort från er!

Ni falska profeter! Ni har lett mitt folk vilse! Ni ropar Frid! till dem som ger er mat och hotar dem som inte vill betala!Detta är Guds budskap till er:

Ett mörker ska komma över er så att det blir slut på era syner. Ni ska famla omkring i tomma intet och inte kunna uppfatta ett enda ord från Gud. Solen ska gå ner för er, och er dag vara över.

Då ska ni stå där avslöjade och tvingas erkänna att era budskap inte var från Herren.

Men jag är fylld med kraft, med Herrens Ande, och utan fruktan förkunnar jag Guds straff över Israel för dess synd.

Lyssna på mig, ni ledare i Israel, ni som hatar rättvisa, älskar orätt

10 och fyller Jerusalem med mord och synd av varje slag,

11 ni som tar mutor, ni präster och profeter som inte vill predika och profetera förrän ni har fått betalt. Ändå söker ni ställa er in hos Herren och säga: Allt är väl, Herren är ibland oss och ingenting kan skada oss.

12 Det är på grund av er som Jerusalem ska plöjas upp som en åker och bli en hög med sten, och bergstoppen där templet står täckas av skog.

Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

Then I said,

“Listen, you leaders(A) of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
    you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;(B)
who eat my people’s flesh,(C)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;(D)
who chop(E) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?(F)

Then they will cry out to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them.(G)
At that time he will hide his face(H) from them
    because of the evil they have done.(I)

This is what the Lord says:

“As for the prophets
    who lead my people astray,(J)
they proclaim ‘peace’(K)
    if they have something to eat,
but prepare to wage war against anyone
    who refuses to feed them.
Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
    and darkness, without divination.(L)
The sun will set for the prophets,(M)
    and the day will go dark for them.(N)
The seers will be ashamed(O)
    and the diviners disgraced.(P)
They will all cover(Q) their faces(R)
    because there is no answer from God.(S)
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.(T)

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

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.

12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.