3:9 Listen to this, you leaders of the family 1 of Jacob,
you rulers of the nation 2 of Israel!
You 3 hate justice
and pervert all that is right.
3:11 Her 4 leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, 5
her priests proclaim rulings for profit,
and her prophets read omens for pay.
Yet they claim to trust 6 the Lord and say,
“The Lord is among us. 7
Disaster will not overtake 8 us!”
1 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn Heb “house.”
3 tn Heb “who.” A new sentence was begun here in the translation for stylistic reasons (also at the beginning of v. 10).
4 sn The pronoun Her refers to Jerusalem (note the previous line).
5 tn Heb “judge for a bribe.”
6 tn Heb “they lean upon” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “rely on.”
7 tn Heb “Is not the
8 tn Or “come upon” (so many English versions); NCV “happen to us”; CEV “come to us.”