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

¹In rekel sem: Čujte, prosim, glave Jakobove in knezi hiše Izraelove! Ni li vam dolžnost, da znate pravico?

²You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

²ki sovražite dobro in ljubite hudo, trgate kožo ljudem in meso ž njih kosti;

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.

³ki žrete ljudstva mojega meso in jim derete kožo in lomite kosti ter jih pripravljate kakor v lonec in kakor meso, ki se deva v kotel.

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.”

⁴Tedaj bodo klicali h GOSPODU, pa jim ne odgovori; in skrije jim obličje svoje tisti čas primerno temu, kakor so hudobno delali.

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:

⁵Tako pravi GOSPOD o prorokih, ki zapeljavajo ljudstvo moje, ki kličejo, dokler imajo kaj gristi z zobmi: Mir! njemu pa, kdor jim ničesar ne da v usta, napovedujejo vojsko:

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.

⁶Zato vam pride noč, da ne boste imeli prikazni, in tema, da ne boste prorokovali; in solnce zatone prorokom ter dan jim otemni.

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.” .”

⁷In sramovali se bodo vidci in osramočeni bodo vedeži, in vsi si zakrijejo ustnice, ker ni odgovora Božjega.

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.

⁸Jaz pa sem napolnjen z močjo po duhu GOSPODOVEM in s sodbo in hrabrostjo, da bi oznanjal Jakobu pregreho njegovo in Izraelu njegov greh.

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.

⁹Čujte to, pravim, glave hiše Jakobove in knezi hiše Izraelove, ki studite pravo sodbo in zvijate vse, kar je ravno,

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

¹⁰ki zidate Sion s krvjo in Jeruzalem s krivico!

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.”

¹¹Mestne glave sodijo za darila in duhovniki v njem uče za plačilo in proroki v njem vedežujejo za denar; vendar se opirajo na GOSPODA in govore: Mar ni Gospod med nami? nesreča ne pride nad nas nobena!Zato se bo zavoljo vas oral Sion kakor njiva in Jeruzalem postane groblja in gora hiše božje z gozdom obrastel grič.

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.

¹²Zato se bo zavoljo vas oral Sion kakor njiva in Jeruzalem postane groblja in gora hiše božje z gozdom obrastel grič.