9. Listen to this, you leaders of the descendants of Jacob,you rulers of the nation of Israel.You despise justice and pervert everything that is right.
10. You build Zion on bloodshed and Jerusalem on wickedness.
11. Your leaders exchange justice for bribes.Your priests teach for a price.Your prophets tell the future for money.But they rely on the Lord when they say,“After all, the Lord is with us.Nothing bad will happen to us.”
12. Because of you,Zion will be plowed like a field,Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble,and the temple mountain will become a worship sitecovered with trees.