7. Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them.
8. But as for me, the Lord fills me with his Spirit and power, and gives me a sense of justice and the courage to tell the people of Israel what their sins are.
9. Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.
10. You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and injustice.
11. The city's rulers govern for bribes, the priests interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give their revelations for money — and they all claim that the Lord is with them. “No harm will come to us,” they say. “The Lord is with us.”
12. And so, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.