¹I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

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

²You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, 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!

³who also 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 caldron.

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 they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

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 says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for 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.

⁶“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will 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.

⁷The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” .”

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

⁸But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, 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.

⁹Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, 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!

¹⁰They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹⁰Každý stavia Sion krvou a Jeruzalem neprávosťou!

¹¹Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on 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 Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

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