² Hear,^(G) you peoples, all of you,^(H)
    listen, earth^(I) and all who live in it,
that the Sovereign Lord may bear witness^(J) against you,
    the Lord from his holy temple.^(K)

⁶ “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble,
    a place for planting vineyards.^(S)
I will pour her stones^(T) into the valley
    and lay bare her foundations.^(U)
7 All her idols^(V) will be broken to pieces;^(W)
    all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;
    I will destroy all her images.^(X)
Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,^(Y)
    as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

“I am planning disaster^(AY) against this people,
    from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,^(AZ)
    for it will be a time of calamity.
⁴ In that day people will ridicule you;
    they will taunt you with this mournful song:
‘We are utterly ruined;^(BA)
    my people’s possession is divided up.^(BB)
He takes it from me!
    He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

⁵ Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
    to divide the land^(BC) by lot.^(BD)

“Do not my words do good^(BG)
    to the one whose ways are upright?^(BH)
8 Lately my people have risen up
    like an enemy.
You strip off the rich robe
    from those who pass by without a care,
    like men returning from battle.
⁹ You drive the women of my people
    from their pleasant homes.^(BI)
You take away my blessing
    from their children forever.
¹⁰ Get up, go away!
    For this is not your resting place,^(BJ)
because it is defiled,^(BK)
    it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
¹¹ If a liar and deceiver^(BL) comes and says,
    ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’^(BM)
    that would be just the prophet for this people!^(BN)

“Listen, you leaders^(BS) of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
²     you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;^(BT)
3 who eat my people’s flesh,^(BU)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;^(BV)
who chop^(BW) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?^(BX)”

⁴ Then they will cry out to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them.^(BY)
At that time he will hide his face^(BZ) from them
    because of the evil they have done.^(CA)

“As for the prophets
    who lead my people astray,^(CB)
they proclaim ‘peace’^(CC)
    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.^(CD)
The sun will set for the prophets,^(CE)
    and the day will go dark for them.^(CF)
7 The seers will be ashamed^(CG)
    and the diviners disgraced.^(CH)
They will all cover^(CI) their faces^(CJ)
    because there is no answer from God.^(CK)”
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.^(CL)

⁹ Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
    and distort all that is right;^(CM)
10 who build^(CN) Zion with bloodshed,^(CO)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.^(CP)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,^(CQ)
    her priests teach for a price,^(CR)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.^(CS)
Yet they look^(CT) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”^(CU)
12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(CV)
    the temple^(CW) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(CX)