1. Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,
2. yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
3. You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.
4. The time is coming when you will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer you. He will not listen to your prayers, for you have done evil.
5. My people are deceived by prophets who promise peace to those who pay them, but threaten war for those who don't. To these prophets the Lord says,