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Wicked Rulers and Prophets
1And I said:
“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you ⚓rulers of the house of Israel:
⚓Is it not for you to know justice?
2You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
3Who also ⚓eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
⚓Like flesh in the caldron.”
4Then ⚓they will cry to the Lord,
But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
Because they have been evil in their deeds.
5Thus says the Lord⚓concerning the prophets
Who make my people stray;
Who chant “Peace”
While they ⚓chew with their teeth,
But who prepare war against him
⚓Who puts nothing into their mouths:
6“Therefore⚓ you shall have night without vision,
And you shall have darkness without divination;
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
And the day shall be dark for ⚓them.
7So the seers shall be ashamed,
And the diviners abashed;
Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
⚓For there is no answer from God.”
8But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,
And of justice and might,
⚓To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
9Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And pervert all equity,
10⚓Who build up Zion with ⚓bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11⚓Her heads judge for a bribe,
⚓Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for money.
⚓Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
12Therefore because of you
Zion shall be ⚓plowed like a field,
⚓Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And ⚓the mountain of the temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.
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Tshev Yixayee cov thawj
1Hab kuv has tas, “Mej cov kws ua thawj huv Yakhauj
hab cov kws kaav Yixayee caaj ceg,
mej ca le noog.
Tswm nyog mej yuav paub txujkev ua ncaaj
los tsw yog?
2Mej ntxub kev zoo nyam kev phem,
mej laws kuv haiv tuabneeg daim tawv
hab laws tej nqaj ntawm puab tej pob txhaa.
3Mej noj kuv haiv tuabneeg tej nqaj
hab tev puab daim tawv lug,
hab muab puab tej pob txhaa luv ua tej ywb yaav,
hab muab puab tsuav mog nyoos
ib yaam le cov nqaj huv lub yag,
ib yaam le cov nqaj rog huv lub lauj kaub.”
4Puab yuav quaj thov Yawmsaub,
tassws nwg yuav tsw teb puab.
Thaus ntawd nwg yuav fee plhu ntawm puab
vem puab tau ua phem kawg.
5Yawmsaub has le nuav ntswg txug cov xwbfwb cev lug
kws coj kuv haiv tuabneeg yuam kev,
kws qw tas muaj kev thaaj yeeb
rua thaus puab muaj noj,
hab tshaaj tawm tas muaj kev ua rog
rua tug kws tsw muab ib yaam daabtsw
rua puab noj huv lub qhov ncauj.
6“Vem le nuav yuav ua mo ntuj rua mej
tassws mej yuav tsw ua yug quas toog pum,
yuav tsaus ntuj nti
tassws mej yuav tsw txawj pum tom hauv ntej.
Lub nub yuav poob qho rua cov xwbfwb cev lug hov,
nruab nub los yuav tsaus ntuj nti rua puab.
7Cov kws txeev ua yug quas toog pum
yuav poob ntsej muag,
cov kws pum tom hauv ntej
yuav raug txaaj muag.
Puab suavdawg yuav pus ncauj nti
tsua qhov tsw muaj lug teb ntawm Vaajtswv tuaj.”
8Has txug kuv mas kuv muaj fwjchim
hab muaj Yawmsaub tug Ntsuj Plig
hab muaj txujkev ua ncaaj
hab muaj zug puv nkaus,
sub txhad tau qha Yakhauj paub nwg tej kev faav xeeb
hab qha Yixayee paub nwg lub txem.
9Mej cov kws ua thawj huv Yakhauj caaj ceg,
hab cov kws kaav Yixayee caaj ceg,
ca le noog tej lug nuav.
Mej ntxub qhov ua ncaaj
hab muab qhov zoo ntxeev ua qhov phem taag huvsw.
10Mej muab ntshaav lug tswm Xi‑oo
hab muab kev txhum lug tswm Yeluxalee.
11Cov thawj huv lub nroog yuav nyaj xab tu plaub,
cov pov thawj yuav nqe ndav txhad qhuab qha,
cov xwbfwb cev lug yuav nyaj
txhad has pum tom hauv ntej,
los puab tseed vaam Yawmsaub hab has tas,
“Yawmsaub nrug nraim peb nyob los tsw yog?
Tsw muaj ib yaam kev phem daabtsw
yuav tshwm lug raug peb le.”
12Vem yog tim mej ntaag,
Xi‑oo txhad yuav raug muab laij ib yaam le laij teb,
Yeluxalee yuav pob taag ua tej nam pawg,
hab lub roob tuam tsev yuav caj ua roob haav zoov.