Listen, you leaders of the house of Jacob,
    you rulers of the house of Israel.
Should you not be responsible
    to know what is right?
² And yet you hate what is good
    and love what is evil.
³ You eat the flesh of my people
    and strip off their skin;
you break their bones into pieces
    like flesh for the pot,
    like meat in a cauldron.
⁴ Then they will cry out to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them.
He will conceal his face from them at that time
    because of the evil they have done.

⁵ Thus says the Lord about the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
who promise prosperity
    when they have something to eat,
but who declare war against those
    who put no food into their mouths.
⁶ Therefore, you will have night without vision
    and darkness without divination.
The sun will go down on the prophets;
    for them the daytime will be black.
⁷ Then the seers will be disgraced
    and the diviners will be put to shame.
They will all cover their lips,
    for there is no answer from God.
⁸ But as for me, I am filled with strength,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    with justice and might
to declare to Jacob his crime
    and to Israel his sin.

⁹ Listen to this,
    you leaders of the house of Jacob,
    you rulers of the house of Israel,
who despise justice
    and pervert what is right,
¹⁰ who build Zion through bloodshed
    and Jerusalem through wickedness.
¹¹ Her leaders accept bribes for favorable judgments,
    her priests render judgments for a fee,
    her prophets practice divination for money.
And yet they rely upon the Lord, saying,
    “Isn’t the Lord in our midst?
    No harm can come upon us.”
¹² Therefore, because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field.
Jerusalem will be reduced to a heap of rubble,
    and the temple mount to a height
    overgrown with thickets.