القراءة بلغتين

وأَقول: إِسمَعوا يا رُؤَساءَ يَعْقوب وقُوَّادَ بَيتِ إِسْرائيل: أَما يَنبَغي لكم أَن تَعرِفوا الحقّ؟

أَيُّها المُبغِضونَ الخَيرَ والمُحِبُّونَ الشَّرّ النَّازِعونَ جُلودَهم عنهم ولُحومَهم عن عِظامِهم

الَّذينَ يَأكُلونَ لُحومَ شَعْبي ويَسلَخون جُلودَهم عنهم ويُهَشِّمونَ عِظامَهم ويُقَطِّعونَهم كما في القِدْر وكاللَّحمِ في وَسَطِ المِرجَل

حينَئِذٍ يَصرُخونَ إِلى الرَّبِّ فلا يُجيبُهم بل يَحجُبُ وَجهَه عنهم في ذٰلك الزَّمان لِأَنَّهم أَساءوا أَعْمالَهم

هٰكذا قالَ الرَّبُّ على الأَنبِياء الَّذينَ يُضِلُّونَ شَعْبي ويَعَضُّونَ بِأَسنانِهم ويُنادونَ بِالسَّلام ومَن لا يُلْقِمُهم في أَفْواهِهم يَشُنُّونَ علَيه حَربًا مُقَدَّسة

لِذٰلك يَكونُ لَكمُ اللَّيلُ دونَ رؤيا والظُّلمَةُ دونَ عِرافة وتَغرُبُ الشَّمسُ على الأَنبِياء ويُظلِمُ علَيهمِ النَّهار

فيَخْزى الرَّاؤونَ ويَخجَلُ العَرَّافون وجَميعُهم يُلثِّمونَ شِفاهَهم لِأَنَّه لَيسَ جَوابٌ مِنَ الله

لٰكِنِّي ٱمتَلأتُ قُوَّةً (بِرُوحِ الرَّبّ) وحَقًّا وبأسًا لِأُخبِرَ يَعْقوبَ بِمَعصِيَتِه وإِسرائيلَ بِخَطيئَتِه

إِسمَعوا هٰذا يا رُؤَساءَ بَيتِ يَعْقوب وقُوَّادَ بَيتِ إِسْرائيل الَّذينَ يَمقُتونَ الحَقّ ويُعَوِّجونَ كُلَّ ٱستِقامة

الَّذِينَ يَبْنُونَ صِهْيَوْنَ بِالدِّمَاءِ، وَأُورُشَلِيمَ بِالظُّلْمِ.

إِنَّما رُؤَساؤُها يَحكُمونَ بِالرَّشوَة وكَهَنَتُها يُعَلِّمونَ بِالأُجرَة وأَنبِياؤُها يُمارِسونَ العِرافَةَ بالفِضَّة ويَعتَمِدونَ على الرَّبِّ قائِلين: أَلَيسَ الرَّبُّ في وَسْطِنا فلا تَحِلُّ بِنا الشُّرور؟

لِذٰلك بِسَبَبكم ستُحرَثُ صِهيونُ كَحَقل وتَصيرُ أُورَشَليمُ أَطْلالًا وجَبَلُ البَيتِ مَشارِفَ غاب

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

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

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

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

The LORD says 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:

“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.

The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.”

But as for me, I am full of power by the LORD’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,

who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Therefore 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.