Rulers and Prophets Condemned
Then I said: Hos 5:1Isa 1:10Jer 5:4-5Psa 82:1-51Co 6:52Ch 19:5-10Amo 4:1Deu 1:13-17
“Hear now, O leaders of Jacob,
you rulers of the house of Israel.
Should you not know justice?
You hate good and love evil. Ezk 22:27Pro 28:4Psa 53:41Ki 21:201Ki 22:6-82Ch 19:2Rom 12:92Ti 3:3
You tear the skin from my people
and strip the flesh from their bones.
You eat the flesh of my people Psa 14:4Ezk 11:3Ezk 11:6-7Zep 3:3
after stripping off their skin
and breaking their bones.
You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”
Then they will cry out to the LORD, Isa 1:15Pro 1:28Ezk 8:18Psa 18:41Deu 31:17-18Deu 32:19-20Mat 7:22Isa 3:11
but He will not answer them.
At that time He will hide His face from them
because of the evil they have done.
This is what the LORD says: Jer 14:14-15Jer 6:14Ezk 13:10-16Ezk 22:25-29Isa 9:15-16Jer 23:32Jer 23:9-17Jer 28:15-17
“As for the prophets
who lead My people astray,
who proclaim peace
while they chew with their teeth,
but declare war against one
who puts nothing in their mouths:
Therefore night will come over you without visions, Isa 8:20-22Amo 8:9-10Isa 29:10Isa 59:10Ezk 13:22-23Jer 13:16Jer 15:9Psa 74:9
and darkness without divination.
The sun will set on these prophets,
and the daylight will turn black over them.
Then the seers will be ashamed Isa 44:25Zec 13:41Sa 28:6Amo 8:11Ezk 24:17Isa 47:12-14Lev 13:451Sa 14:37
and the diviners will be disgraced.
They will all cover their mouths
because there is no answer from God.”
As for me, however, I am filled with power Isa 58:11Co 2:12-131Co 2:4Isa 11:2-3Act 18:9-11Act 4:8-12Act 7:54-57Ezk 16:2
by the Spirit of the LORD,
with justice and courage,
to declare to Jacob his transgression
and to Israel his sin.
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob Isa 1:23Psa 58:1-2Pro 17:15Deu 27:19Exo 3:16Hos 5:1Jer 5:28Lev 26:15
and rulers of the house of Israel,
who despise justice
and pervert all that is right,
who build Zion with bloodshed Hab 2:9-12Jer 22:13-17Mat 27:25Ezk 22:25-28Jhn 11:50Zep 3:3
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Her leaders judge for a bribe, Jer 6:13Isa 1:23Mic 3:5Act 8:18-20Jer 7:4Tit 1:111Pe 5:2Isa 48:2
her priests teach for a price,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying,
“Is not the LORD among us?
No disaster can come upon us.”
Therefore, because of you, Jer 26:18Psa 79:1Mic 4:1-2Mat 24:2Mic 1:6Psa 107:34Act 6:13-14Isa 2:2-3
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
and the temple mount a wooded ridge.