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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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Cem Yixayee cov thawj
1Thiab kuv hais tias,
“Nej cov uas ua thawj hauv Yakhauj
thiab cov uas kav Yixayee caj ces,
nej cia li mloog.
Tsim nyog nej yuav paub
txojkev ua ncaj los tsis yog?
2Nej ntxub kev zoo nyiam kev phem,
nej laws kuv haiv neeg daim tawv
thiab laws tej nqaij ntawm lawv tej pob txha.
3Nej noj kuv haiv neeg tej nqaij
thiab tev lawv daim tawv los,
thiab muab lawv tej pob txha lov ua tej ywb yav,
thiab muab lawv tsuav mos nyoos
ib yam li cov nqaij hauv lub yias,
ib yam li cov nqaij rog hauv lub lauj kaub.”
4Lawv yuav quaj thov Yawmsaub,
tiamsis nws yuav tsis teb lawv.
Thaum ntawd nws yuav fee plhu ntawm lawv
vim lawv tau ua phem kawg.
5Yawmsaub hais li no ntsig txog cov xibhwb
cev lus uas coj kuv haiv neeg yuam kev,
uas qw tias muaj kev thaj yeeb
rau thaum lawv muaj noj,
thiab tshaj tawm tias muaj kev ua rog
rau tus uas tsis muab ib yam dabtsi
rau lawv noj hauv lub qhov ncauj.
6“Vim li no yuav ua hmo ntuj rau nej
tiamsis nej yuav tsis ua yog toog pom,
yuav tsaus ntuj nti tiamsis nej yuav tsis txawj
pom tom hauv ntej.
Lub hnub yuav poob qho
rau cov xibhwb cev lus ntawd,
nruab hnub los yuav tsaus ntuj nti rau lawv.
7Cov uas txeev ua yog toog pom
yuav poob ntsej muag,
cov uas pom tom hauv ntej
yuav raug txaj muag.
Lawv sawvdaws yuav pos ncauj nti
rau qhov tsis muaj lus teb ntawm Vajtswv tuaj.”
8Hais txog kuv mas kuv muaj hwjchim
thiab muaj Yawmsaub tus Ntsuj Plig
thiab muaj txojkev ua ncaj
thiab muaj zog puv nkaus,
xwv thiaj tau qhia Yakhauj paub
nws tej kev fav xeeb
thiab qhia Yixayee paub nws lub txim.
9Nej cov uas ua thawj hauv Yakhauj caj ces,
thiab cov uas kav Yixayee caj ces,
cia li mloog tej lus no.
Nej ntxub qhov ua ncaj
thiab muab qhov zoo
ntxeev ua qhov phem tag huvsi.
10Nej muab ntshav los tsim Xi‑oo
thiab muab kev txhaum los tsim Yeluxalees.
11Cov thawj hauv lub nroog
yuav nyiaj xiab tu plaub,
cov pov thawj yuav nqe ntiav thiaj qhuab qhia,
cov xibhwb cev lus yuav nyiaj
thiaj hais pom tom hauv ntej,
los lawv tseem vam Yawmsaub thiab hais tias,
“Yawmsaub nrog nraim peb nyob los tsis yog?
Tsis muaj ib yam kev phem dabtsi
yuav tshwm los raug peb li.”
12Vim yog tim nej ntag, Xi‑oo thiaj yuav raug
muab laij ib yam li laij teb,
Yeluxalees yuav pob tag ua tej niag pawg,
thiab lub roob tuam tsev
yuav ciaj ua roob hav zoov.