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1내가 또 이르노니 야곱의 두령들과 이스라엘 족속의 치리자들아 청컨대 들으라 공의는 너희의 알 것이 아니냐 2너희가 선을 미워하고 악을 좋아하여 내 백성의 가죽을 벗기고 그 뼈에서 살을 뜯어 3그들의 살을 먹으며 그 가죽을 벗기며 그 뼈를 꺾어 다지기를 남비와 솥 가운데 담을 고기처럼 하는도다 4그 때에 그들이 여호와께 부르짖을지라도 응답지 아니하시고 그들의 행위의 악하던 대로 그들 앞에 얼굴을 가리우시리라 5내 백성을 유혹하는 선지자는 이에 물면 평강을 외치나 그 입에 무엇을 채워주지 아니하는 자에게는 전쟁을 준비하는도다 이런 선지자에 대하여 여호와께서 가라사대 6그러므로 너희가 밤을 만나리니 이상을 보지 못할 것이요 흑암을 만나리니 점 치지 못하리라 하셨나니 이 선지자 위에는 해가 져서 낮이 캄캄할 것이라 7선견자가 부끄러워하며 술객이 수치를 당하여 다 입술을 가리울 것은 하나님이 응답지 아니하심이어니와 8오직 나는 여호와의 신으로 말미암아 권능과 공의와 재능으로 채움을 얻고 야곱의 허물과 이스라엘의 죄를 그들에게 보이리라 9야곱 족속의 두령과 이스라엘 족속의 치리자 곧 공의를 미워하고 정직한 것을 굽게 하는 자들아 청컨대 이 말을 들을지어다 10시온을 피로, 예루살렘을 죄악으로 건축하는도다 11그 두령은 뇌물을 위하여 재판하며 그 제사장은 삯을 위하여 교훈하며 그 선지자는 돈을 위하여 점 치면서 오히려 여호와를 의뢰하여 이르기를 여호와께서 우리 중에 계시지 아니하냐 재앙이 우리에게 임하지 아니하리라 하는도다 12이러므로 너희로 인하여 시온은 밭 같이 갊을 당하고 예루살렘은 무더기가 되고 성전의 산은 수풀의 높은 곳과 같게 되리라

1I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? 2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; 3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. 4Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.” 5Thus says Yahweh 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: 6“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. 7The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.” 8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin. 9Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. 10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.” 12Therefore 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.

1Voorts zeide ik: Hoort nu, gij hoofden Jakobs, en gij oversten van het huis Israels! Betaamt het ulieden niet het recht te weten? 2Zij haten het goede, en hebben het kwade lief; zij roven hun huid van hen af, en hun vlees van hun beenderen. 3Ja, zij zijn het, die het vlees mijns volks eten, en hun huid afstropen, en hun beenderen verbreken; en vaneen leggen, gelijk als in een pot, en als vlees in het midden eens ketels. 4Alsdan zullen zij roepen tot den HEERE, doch Hij zal hen niet verhoren; maar zal Zijn aangezicht te dier tijd voor hen verbergen, gelijk als zij hun handelingen kwaad gemaakt hebben. 5Alzo zegt de HEERE, tegen de profeten, die Mijn volk verleiden; die met hun tanden bijten, en roepen vrede uit; maar die niets geeft in hun mond, tegen dien zo heiligen zij een krijg. 6Daarom zal het nacht voor ulieden worden vanwege het gezicht, en ulieden zal duisternis zijn vanwege de waarzegging; en de zon zal over deze profeten ondergaan; en de dag zal over hen zwart worden. 7En de zieners zullen beschaamd, en de waarzeggers schaamrood worden; en zij zullen al te zamen de bovenste lip bewimpelen; want er zal geen antwoord Gods zijn. 8Maar waarlijk, ik ben vol krachts van den Geest des HEEREN; en vol van gericht en dapperheid, om Jakob te verkondigen zijn overtreding, en Israel zijn zonde. 9Hoort nu dit, gij hoofden van het huis Jakobs, en gij oversten van het huis Israels! die van het gericht een gruwel hebt, en al wat recht is verkeert; 10Bouwende Sion met bloed, en Jeruzalem met onrecht. 11Haar hoofden rechten om geschenken, en haar priesters leren om loon, en haar profeten waarzeggen om geld; nog steunen zij op den HEERE, zeggende: Is de HEERE niet in het midden van ons? Ons zal geen kwaad overkomen. 12Daarom, om uwentwil, zal Sion als een akker geploegd worden, en Jeruzalem zal tot steenhopen worden, en de berg dezes huizes tot hoogten eens wouds.