1. Then I said: Listen now, heads of Jacob,and rulers of the house of Israel.Should you not know justice?
2. You who hate good and love evil,who tear the skin from My peopleand the flesh from their bones;
3. you who have eaten the flesh of My people,and have flayed their skin from them,and broken their bones in pieces;who have chopped them up like meat in the pot,and like flesh in the cauldron.
4. Then they will cry out to the Lord,but He will not answer them;He will hide His face from them at that time,because they have wrought evil deeds.
5. Thus says the Lord: Regarding the prophetswho mislead My people—the ones who have something to eatproclaim “Peace,”but if one does not feed them,then they prepare for war against him.
6. Therefore you will have night without vision,and you will have darkness without divination;the sun will set upon the prophets,and black upon them will be the day.
7. The seers will be shamedand the diviners disgraced,and they will all cover their beards,for there is no answer from God.