1 et dixi audite principes Iacob et duces domus Israhel
numquid non vestrum est scire iudicium
2 qui odio habetis bonum et diligitis malum
qui violenter tollitis pelles eorum desuper eos
et carnem eorum desuper ossibus eorum
3 qui comederunt carnem populi mei
et pellem eorum desuper excoriaverunt
et ossa eorum confregerunt et conciderunt sicut in lebete
et quasi carnem in medio ollae
4 tunc clamabunt ad Dominum et non exaudiet eos
et abscondet faciem suam ab eis in tempore illo
sicut nequiter egerunt in adinventionibus suis
5 haec dicit Dominus super prophetas qui seducunt populum meum
qui mordent dentibus suis et praedicant pacem
et si quis non dederit in ore eorum quippiam
sanctificant super eum proelium
6 propterea nox vobis pro visione erit
et tenebrae vobis pro divinatione
et occumbet sol super prophetas et obtenebrabitur super eos dies
7 et confundentur qui vident visiones et confundentur divini
et operient vultus suos omnes
quia non est responsum Dei
8 verumtamen ego repletus sum fortitudine spiritus Domini iudicio et
virtute
ut adnuntiem Iacob scelus suum et Israhel peccatum suum
9 audite haec principes domus Iacob et iudices domus Israhel
qui abominamini iudicium et omnia recta pervertitis
10 qui aedificatis Sion in sanguinibus et Hierusalem in iniquitate
11 principes eius in muneribus iudicabant
et sacerdotes eius in mercede docebant
et prophetae eius in pecunia divinabant
et super Dominum requiescebant dicentes
numquid non Dominus in medio nostrum
non venient super nos mala
12 propter hoc causa vestri Sion quasi ager arabitur
et Hierusalem quasi acervus lapidum erit
et mons templi in excelsa silvarum
1 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.