Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James 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,
O heads
of Jacob, and
ye
princes
of the house of Israel ;
Is
it
not for
you
to
know judgment
?
You
hate good and love evil.
You
tear
the skin from my
people
and strip
the
flesh from their bones .
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 they
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
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
.
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
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.
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 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.
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. ”
Then shall
the seers be ashamed ,
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
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.
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 princes
of the house of Israel, that
abhor
judgment,
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 will
they lean upon the LORD, and
say
, Is not the LORD among us? none
evil
can 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
the
forest
.
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