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.
3:10 You 4 build Zion through bloody crimes, 5
Jerusalem 6 through unjust violence.
3:11 Her 7 leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, 8
her priests proclaim rulings for profit,
and her prophets read omens for pay.
Yet they claim to trust 9 the Lord and say,
“The Lord is among us. 10
Disaster will not overtake 11 us!”
3:12 Therefore, because of you, 12 Zion will be plowed up like 13 a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
and the Temple Mount 14 will become a hill overgrown with brush! 15