Leaders and Prophets Rebuked
1Then I said,
“Listen, you leaders of Jacob,
you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
2you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
and the flesh from their bones;
3who eat my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin
and break their bones in pieces;
who chop them up like meat for the pan,
like flesh for the pot?”
4Then 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.
5This is what the Lord says:
“As for the prophets
who lead my people astray,
they proclaim ‘peace’
if they have something to eat,
but prepare to wage war against anyone
who refuses to feed them.
6Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
and darkness, without divination.
The sun will set for the prophets,
and the day will go dark for them.
7The seers will be ashamed
and the diviners disgraced.
They will all cover their faces
because there is no answer from God.”
8But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression,
to Israel his sin.
9Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
and distort all that is right;
10who build Zion with bloodshed,
and Jerusalem with wickedness.
11Her leaders judge for a bribe,
her priests teach for a price,
and her prophets tell fortunes for money.
Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No disaster will come upon us.”
12Therefore because of you,
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Viongozi Na Manabii Wakemewa
13:1 Yer 5:5Kisha nikasema,
“Sikilizeni enyi viongozi wa Yakobo,
enyi watawala wa nyumba ya Israeli.
Je, hampaswi kujua hukumu,
23:2 Za 53:4; Eze 22:27ninyi mnaochukia mema
na kupenda maovu;
ninyi mnaowachuna watu wangu ngozi
na kuondoa nyama kwenye mifupa yao;
33:3 Za 14:4; Sef 3:3; Ay 24:14; Eze 11:7; 24:4-5; 34:4ninyi mnaokula nyama ya watu wangu,
mnaowachuna ngozi
na kuvunja mifupa yao vipande vipande;
mnaowakatakata kama nyama
ya kuwekwa kwenye sufuria
na kama nyama
ya kuwekwa kwenye chungu?”
43:4 Kum 1:45; 31:17; 1Sam 8:18; Yer 11:11; Isa 58:4; Mit 1:28; Ay 15:31; Eze 8:18Kisha watamlilia Bwana,
lakini hatawajibu.
Wakati huo atawaficha uso wake
kwa sababu ya uovu waliotenda.
53:5 Isa 3:12; 9:16; 53:6; 56:10; Mt 7:15; Yer 4:10Hili ndilo asemalo Bwana:
“Kuhusu manabii wanaowapotosha watu wangu,
mtu akiwalisha,
wanatangaza ‘amani’;
kama hakufanya hivyo,
wanaandaa kupigana vita dhidi yake.
63:6 Isa 8:19-22; 29:10; Eze 7:26; 12:24Kwa hiyo usiku utawajieni, msiweze kuwa na maono,
na giza, msiweze kubashiri.
Jua litawachwea manabii hao,
nao mchana utakuwa giza kwao.
73:7 Yer 6:15; Mik 7:16; Isa 44:25; Es 6:12; Za 74:9; Amu 8:11; Law 13:45; Eze 20:3Waonaji wataaibika
na waaguzi watafedheheka.
Wote watafunika nyuso zao
kwa sababu hakuna jibu litokalo kwa Mungu.”
83:8 1Kor 2:1, 4; Isa 58:1; 57:12; 61:2Lakini kuhusu mimi, nimejazwa nguvu,
nimejazwa Roho wa Bwana,
haki na uweza,
kumtangazia Yakobo kosa lake,
na Israeli dhambi yake.
93:9 Isa 58:1-2; 1:23Sikieni hili, enyi viongozi wa nyumba ya Yakobo,
enyi watawala wa nyumba ya Israeli,
mnaodharau haki
na kupotosha kila lililo sawa;
103:10 Yer 22:13, 17; Isa 59:7; Mik 7:2; Hab 2:12; Nah 3:1; Eze 22:27mnaojenga Sayuni kwa kumwaga damu
na Yerusalemu kwa uovu.
113:11 Kut 23:8; Law 19:15; Mal 2:9; Eze 22:12; Mik 7:3; Yer 6:13; 1Tim 1:11; 1Sam 4:5-6; Eze 13:19; 34:2; Isa 1:23; 10:20; 56:11; Yer 6:13; 7:4; Mao 4:13; Hos 4:8, 18Viongozi wake wanahukumu kwa rushwa,
na makuhani wake wanafundisha kwa malipo,
nao manabii wake wanatabiri kwa fedha.
Hata hivyo wanamwegemea Bwana na kusema,
“Je, Bwana si yumo miongoni mwetu?
Hakuna maafa yatakayotupata.”
123:12 2Fal 25:9; Isa 6:11; Mik 1:6; Za 79:1; Yer 52:13; 22:6; Mao 5:18; Eze 5:14Kwa hiyo kwa sababu yenu,
Sayuni italimwa kama shamba,
Yerusalemu itakuwa lundo la kokoto,
na kilima cha Hekalu
kitakuwa kichuguu
kilichofunikwa na vichaka.
