3:1 I said,
“Listen, you leaders 1 of Jacob,
you rulers of the nation 2 of Israel!
You ought to know what is just, 3
3:2 yet you 4 hate what is good, 5
and love what is evil. 6
You flay my people’s skin 7
and rip the flesh from their bones. 8
3:3 You 9 devour my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and crush their bones.
You chop them up like flesh in a pot 10 –
like meat in a kettle.
3:11 Her 11 leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, 12
her priests proclaim rulings for profit,
and her prophets read omens for pay.
Yet they claim to trust 13 the Lord and say,
“The Lord is among us. 14
Disaster will not overtake 15 us!”