¹指摘官长与领袖

¹And I say, `Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

²然而，你们恨恶良善，喜爱邪恶，从人身上剥皮，从人骨头上剔肉。

²Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

³你们吃我民的肉，剥他们的皮，打断他们的骨头，切成像锅里的块，像釜中的肉块。

³And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread [them] out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron.

⁴那时，他们要向耶和华呼求，耶和华却不应允他们。到那时，耶和华必掩面不顾他们，因为他们行了恶事。”

⁴Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.

⁵责备假先知关于那些使我民走迷路的先知，耶和华这样说：“他们的牙齿有所咀嚼的时候，就大叫‘平安’；谁不把食物给他们吃，他们就攻击那人。”

⁵Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried `Peace,` And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war.

⁶因此你们只有黑夜，没有异象，只有黑暗，没有默示。对先知，日头要下落，为他们，白日变为黑暗。

⁶Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.

⁷先见必抱愧，得默示的人要蒙羞；他们都必掩着上唇，因为没有　神的答复。

⁷And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.

⁸至于我，我却借着耶和华的灵，满有力量、公平和能力，可以向雅各述说他的过犯，向以色列指出他的罪恶。

⁸And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

⁹恶有恶报──圣城被毁雅各家的首领，你们要听这个，以色列家的官长，你们也要听；你们厌恶公平，屈枉正直，

⁹Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

¹⁰用人血建锡安，以罪孽造耶路撒冷。

¹⁰Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹¹城中的首领为贿赂而审判，祭司为薪俸而教导，先知为银子说默示，他们竟倚靠耶和华，说：“耶和华不是在我们中间吗？灾祸必不会临到我们身上。”

¹¹Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.`

¹²所以，为你们的缘故，锡安必像被耕种的田地，耶路撒冷必变为乱堆，这殿的山要成为丛林中的高冈。

¹²Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house [is] for high places of a forest!