And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

 4 Then shall they ^acry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

 5 Thus saith the Lord concerning the ^aprophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, ^bPeace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare ^cwar against him.

 6 Therefore ^anight shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not ^bdivine; and the ^csun shall go down over the ^dprophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

 7 Then shall the seers be ^aashamed, and the ^bdiviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is ^cno answer of God.

 8 But truly I am full of ^apower by the ^bspirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his ^ctransgression, and to Israel his sin.

 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.