1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
2 Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.
5 Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him:
6 therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
7 And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.
8 But truly I am filled with power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and with judgment and with 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 that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed {as} a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
1 我说： "雅各的首领， 你们要听， 以色列家的官长， 你们也要听； 难道你们不知道公平吗？
2 然而， 你们恨恶良善， 喜爱邪恶， 从人身上剥皮， 从人骨头上剔肉。
3 你们吃我民的肉， 剥他们的皮， 打断他们的骨头， 切成像锅里的块， 像釜中的肉块。
4 那时， 他们要向耶和华呼求， 耶和华却不应允他们。到那时， 耶和华必掩面不顾他们， 因为他们行了恶事。"
5 关于那些使我民走迷路的先知， 耶和华这样说： "他们的牙齿有所咀嚼的时候， 就大叫‘平安’； 谁不把食物给他们吃， 他们就攻击那人。"
6 因此你们只有黑夜， 没有异象， 只有黑暗， 没有默示。对先知， 日头要下落， 为他们， 白日变为黑暗。
7 先见必抱愧， 得默示的人要蒙羞； 他们都必掩着上唇， 因为没有 神的答复。
8 至于我， 我却借着耶和华的灵， 满有力量、公平和能力， 可以向雅各述说他的过犯， 向以色列指出他的罪恶。
9 雅各家的首领， 你们要听这个， 以色列家的官长， 你们也要听； 你们厌恶公平， 屈枉正直，
10 用人血建锡安， 以罪孽造耶路撒冷。
11 城中的首领为贿赂而审判， 祭司为薪俸而教导， 先知为银子说默示， 他们竟倚靠耶和华， 说： "耶和华不是在我们中间吗？灾祸必不会临到我们身上。"
12 所以， 为你们的缘故， 锡安必像被耕种的田地， 耶路撒冷必变为乱堆， 这殿的山要成为丛林中的高冈。