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,