Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
Then
I said :
“
Hear now
, O
leaders
of Jacob, you
rulers of the house of Israel .
Should
you
not know justice?
And
I said ,
Hear, I
pray
you,
ye
heads
of Jacob, and
rulers of the house of Israel :
is
it
not for
you
to
know justice?
You
hate good and love evil.
You
tear
the skin from my
people
and strip
the
flesh from their bones .
ye
who
hate the
good ,
and love the evil;
who
pluck
off
their
skin from off
them,
and their
flesh from off
their bones ;
You
eat the flesh of my people after
stripping
off
their skin and breaking
their bones .
You
chop them up
like
flesh
for the cooking
pot, like
meat
in
a
cauldron
. ”
who
also
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
caldron
.
Then they will
cry out
to
the
LORD
, but He will not answer them .
At
that
time
He will hide His face from them because
of
the
evil
they have done
.
Then shall
they cry unto
Jehovah
, but he will not answer them ;
yea,
he will hide his face from them at
that
time,
according
as
they have wrought
evil
in
their
doings
.
This
is
what
the
LORD
says:
“As
for
the prophets who
lead
My people astray,
who
proclaim
peace
while
they
chew
with their teeth, but
declare
war
against
one
who
puts
nothing
in
their mouths:
Thus
saith
Jehovah
concerning
the prophets that
make
my people to
err;
that
bite
with their teeth, and
cry,
Peace;
and
whoso
putteth
not
into
their mouths ,
they
even
prepare
war
against
him
:
Therefore night will
come
over
you without
visions
, and darkness
without
divination.
The sun will
set
on
these
prophets, and the daylight
will
turn
black over them.
Therefore it
shall
be
night unto
you, that
ye
shall
have
no
vision;
and it
shall
be
dark
unto
you,
that
ye
shall
not
divine;
and
the sun shall
go
down
upon
the
prophets, and the day
shall
be
black over them.
Then
the seers will
be ashamed
and the diviners will
be
disgraced.
They will
all cover their mouths
because
there is no answer from
God. ”
And
the seers shall
be put
to
shame,
and the diviners confounded;
yea,
they shall
all cover their lips;
for
there is no answer of
God.
As for me, however,
I am filled
with
power by the Spirit of the
LORD
, with
justice
and courage
, to declare to
Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
But
as for me, I am full
of
power by the Spirit of Jehovah
, and of
judgment
, and
of
might,
to declare unto
Jacob his transgression ,
and to Israel his sin.
Now
hear this, O
leaders
of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who
despise
justice and pervert all that
is
right,
Hear this, I
pray
you,
ye
heads
of the house of Jacob ,
and rulers of the house of Israel, that
abhor
justice ,
and pervert all equity.
who
build Zion with bloodshed
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
They
build up
Zion with blood,
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Her
leaders
judge for a
bribe
, her
priests teach for a
price
, and her
prophets practice
divination
for money .
Yet they lean upon the
LORD
, saying
, “
Is not the LORD
among
us? No disaster
can
come upon us. ”
The
heads
thereof
judge for reward
, and
the
priests thereof
teach for hire
, and the
prophets thereof
divine
for money :
yet they lean upon Jehovah
, and
say
, Is not Jehovah
in
the midst
of
us? no evil
shall
come upon us.
Therefore ,
because
of
you,
Zion will
be plowed like
a field, Jerusalem will
become a
heap
of
rubble
, and the temple
mount
a wooded
ridge
.
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
a forest
.
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