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.
斥责以色列的领袖
1我说：“雅各的首领，以色列家的统治者啊！
你们要听！
难道你们不知正义吗？
2然而，你们憎恶良善，
喜爱邪恶，
剥下我百姓的皮，
从他们的骨头上剔肉。
3你们吃我百姓的肉，
剥我百姓的皮，
打碎他们的骨头，
把他们切成块，
如同下在锅里、放进釜中的肉。
4你们遭难的时候，
向耶和华呼求，
祂必不应允你们。
因你们的恶行，
祂必掩面不顾你们。”
5耶和华说：
“使我的子民步入歧途的先知啊，
你们向供养你们的人报平安，
出言攻击那不供养你们的人。
6因此，黑夜必笼罩你们，
使你们看不见异象；
幽暗必临到你们，
使你们无法占卜。
太阳要为先知沉落，
白昼变为黑夜。
7先见必抱愧，
占卜者必蒙羞。
因得不到上帝的答复，
你们都必羞愧地捂着脸。”
8至于我，
因有耶和华的灵，
我充满权能、正义和力量，
能向雅各宣告他的过犯，
向以色列宣告他的罪恶。
9雅各家的首领，以色列家的统治者啊，
你们要听！
你们厌恶正义，颠倒是非；
10以血腥建立锡安，
以罪恶建造耶路撒冷。
11城里的首领为贪赃而枉法，
祭司为银子而施教，
先知为钱财而占卜。
他们却宣称倚靠耶和华，说：
“耶和华不是在我们当中吗？
灾祸不会临到我们。”
12所以，因你们的缘故，
锡安必被夷为平地，
耶路撒冷必沦为废墟，
圣殿山必成为长满荒林的高岗。
