1. Then I said,“Listen, leaders of the people of Jacob;listen, you rulers of the nation of Israel.You should know how to decide cases fairly,
2. but you hate good and love evil.You skin my people aliveand tear the flesh off their bones.
3. You eat my people’s fleshand skin them and break their bones;you chop them up like meat for the pot,like meat in a cooking pan.
4. They will cry to the Lord,but he won’t answer them.At that time he will hide his face from them,because what they have done is evil.”
5. The Lord says this about the prophets who teach his people the wrong way of living:“If these prophets are given food to eat,they shout, ‘Peace!’But if someone doesn’t give them what they ask for,they call for a holy war against that person.