I said,
“Please listen, you heads of Yaqub,
And rulers of the house of Israel:
Isn’t it for you to know justice?
2You who hate the good,
And love the evil;
Who tear off their skin,
And their flesh from off their bones;
3Who also eat the flesh of my people,
And flay their skin from off them,
And break their bones,
And chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
And as flesh within the caldron.
4Then they will cry to Allah,
But he will not answer them.
Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,
Because they made their deeds evil.“
5Thus says Allah concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; to those who feed them, they proclaim, “Salam!“ and whoever does not provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
6“Therefore night is over you, with no vision,
And it is dark to you, that you may not divine;
And the sun will go down on the prophets,
And the day will be black over them.
7The seers shall be disappointed,
And the diviners confounded.
Yes, they shall all cover their lips;
For there is no answer from God.“
8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Allah,
And of judgment, and of might,
To declare to Yaqub his disobedience,
And to Israel his sin.
9Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Yaqub,
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice,
And pervert all equity.
10They build up Al-Quds with blood,
And Jerusalem with iniquity.
11Her leaders judge for bribes,
And her priests teach for a price,
And her prophets tell forturnes for money:
Yet they lean on Allah, and say,
Isn’t Allah in the midst of us?
No disaster will come on us.
12Therefore Al-Quds for your sake will be plowed like a field,
And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,
And the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.