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,
6 “Prophets, your day is almost over; the sun is going down on you. Because you mislead my people, you will have no more prophetic visions, and you will not be able to predict anything.”
7 Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them.