3:1 I said,
“Listen, you leaders 1 of Jacob,
you rulers of the nation 2 of Israel!
You ought to know what is just, 3
3:2 yet you 4 hate what is good, 5
and love what is evil. 6
You flay my people’s skin 7
and rip the flesh from their bones. 8
3:3 You 9 devour my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and crush their bones.
You chop them up like flesh in a pot 10 –
like meat in a kettle.
3:9 Listen to this, you leaders of the family 11 of Jacob,
you rulers of the nation 12 of Israel!
You 13 hate justice
and pervert all that is right.
3:10 You 14 build Zion through bloody crimes, 15
Jerusalem 16 through unjust violence.
3:11 Her 17 leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, 18
her priests proclaim rulings for profit,
and her prophets read omens for pay.
Yet they claim to trust 19 the Lord and say,
“The Lord is among us. 20
Disaster will not overtake 21 us!”