¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

¹A povedal som: Nože počujte, hlavy Jakobove a kniežatá domu Izraelovho! Či nie je to vašou vecou, aby ste znali súd?

²Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

²Vy, ktorí nenávidíte dobré a milujete zlé, ktorí sdierate s nich ich kožu a ich mäso s ich kostí!

³and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.

³A ktorí jedia mäso môjho ľudu a sťahujú s nich ich kožu a ich kosti lámu a sekajú na kusy jako do hrnca a jako mäso do kotla.

⁴Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

⁴No, vtedy budú kričať k Hospodinovi, ale sa im neozve, lež skryje pred nimi svoju tvár toho času, tak ako oni vykonávali svoje zlé skutky.

⁵Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him:

⁵Takto hovorí Hospodin o prorokoch, ktorí uvodia môj ľud do bludu, ktorí hryzú svojimi zubami a volajú: Pokoj, a proti tomu, kto nedá nič na ich ústa, zasväcujú vojnu.

⁶therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

⁶Preto vám bude noc pre videnie a tma vám pre veštenie. A tak zajde slnce nad tými prorokmi, a na čierno zatmie sa nad nimi deň.

⁷And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.

⁷A vidiaci sa budú hanbiť a budú rumenieť veštci, a všetci, koľko ich je, zastrú svoju bradu, lebo nebude odpovedi Božej.

⁸But truly I am filled with power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and with judgment and with might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

⁸Ale ja som plný sily čo do Ducha Hospodinovho a súdu a udatnosti, aby som oznámil Jakobovi jeho prestúpenie a Izraelovi jeho hriech.

⁹Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,

⁹Nože počujte to, hlavy domu Jakobovho a kniežatá domu Izraelovho, ktorí máte súd v ohavnosti a všetko, čo je pravé, prevraciate!

¹⁰that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.

¹⁰Každý stavia Sion krvou a Jeruzalem neprávosťou!

¹¹The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

¹¹Jeho hlavy súdia za úplatok, a jeho kňazi vyučujú za plácu, jeho proroci veštia za peniaze a pritom sa spoliehajú na Hospodina a hovoria: Či nie je Hospodin v našom strede? Neprijde na nás zlé.

¹²Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

¹²Preto bude pre vás Sion oraný jako pole, Jeruzalem bude hromadami rozvalín a vrch toho domu výšinami lesa.