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.
斥責以色列的領袖
1我說：「雅各的首領，以色列家的統治者啊！
你們要聽！
難道你們不知正義嗎？
2然而，你們憎惡良善，
喜愛邪惡，
剝下我百姓的皮，
從他們的骨頭上剔肉。
3你們吃我百姓的肉，
剝我百姓的皮，
打碎他們的骨頭，
把他們切成塊，
如同下在鍋裡、放進釜中的肉。
4你們遭難的時候，
向耶和華呼求，
祂必不應允你們。
因你們的惡行，
祂必掩面不顧你們。」
5耶和華說：
「使我的子民步入歧途的先知啊，
你們向供養你們的人報平安，
出言攻擊那不供養你們的人。
6因此，黑夜必籠罩你們，
使你們看不見異象；
幽暗必臨到你們，
使你們無法占卜。
太陽要為先知沉落，
白晝變為黑夜。
7先見必抱愧，
占卜者必蒙羞。
因得不到上帝的答覆，
你們都必羞愧地捂著臉。」
8至於我，
因有耶和華的靈，
我充滿權能、正義和力量，
能向雅各宣告他的過犯，
向以色列宣告他的罪惡。
9雅各家的首領，以色列家的統治者啊，
你們要聽！
你們厭惡正義，顛倒是非；
10以血腥建立錫安，
以罪惡建造耶路撒冷。
11城裡的首領為貪贓而枉法，
祭司為銀子而施教，
先知為錢財而占卜。
他們卻宣稱倚靠耶和華，說：
「耶和華不是在我們當中嗎？
災禍不會臨到我們。」
12所以，因你們的緣故，
錫安必被夷為平地，
耶路撒冷必淪為廢墟，
聖殿山必成為長滿荒林的高崗。
