3 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?
² who hate the good, and love the evil;
who pluck off their skin from off them,
and their flesh from off their bones;
³ 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.
⁴ 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.

⁵ 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.
⁶ 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.
⁷ Then shall the seers be ashamed,
and the diviners confounded:
yea, they shall all cover their lips;
for there is no answer of God.

⁸ 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.
⁹ 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.