我说，雅各的首领，以色列家的官长啊，你们要听：你们不当知道公平么？
And I said, / Hear now, you heads of Jacob / And you rulers of the house of Israel: / Is it not for you / To know justice?

你们恨恶良善，喜爱邪恶；从人身上剥皮，从人骨头上剔肉；
You who hate good / And love evil, / You who tear away their skin from off them / And their flesh from off their bones,

吃我民的肉，剥他们的皮；打折他们的骨头，分成块子像要下锅，又像釜中的肉。
And who devour the flesh of My people / And strip off their skin from off them / And break their bones in pieces / And chop them as for the pot / And like meat in a cauldron.

那时这些人必哀求耶和华，祂却不应允他们；那时祂必照他们所行的恶事，向他们掩面。
Then they will cry out to Jehovah, / But He will not answer them; / Indeed He will hide His face from them at that time, / Just as they were evil in their doings.

论到使我民走错路的申言者，他们牙齿有所嚼的时候，就喊叫说，平安了；若有人不给他们口中有可吃的，他们就预备与他争战；耶和华如此说，
Thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets / Who cause My people to err, / Who, when they have something to bite with their teeth, / Cry, Peace, / But if there is one who does not give something for their mouths, / They prepare for war against him.

所以你们必遭遇黑夜，没有异象；又必遭遇幽暗，不能占卜。日头必向申言者沉落，白昼必在他们身上变为黑暗。
Therefore there will be night to you, without vision, / And darkness to you, without divination. / And the sun will go down on the prophets, / And the day will be black over them.

先见必抱愧，占卜的必蒙羞，都必捂着嘴唇，因为没有从神来的答复。
And the seers will be put to shame, / And the diviners will be ashamed; / And they will all cover their mouths, / For there will be no answer from God.

至于我，我借耶和华的灵，满有力量、公平和能力，可以向雅各说明他的过犯，向以色列指出他的罪。
But as for me, I am full / Of power, with the Spirit of Jehovah, and of justice and might, / To declare to Jacob his transgression / And to Israel his sin.

雅各家的首领，以色列家的官长啊，当听这话：你们厌恶公平，屈枉一切正直；
Hear now this, you heads of the house of Jacob / And you rulers of the house of Israel: / You who abhor justice / And pervert all uprightness,

借流人血建立锡安，以罪孽建造耶路撒冷。
Who build Zion by bloodshed / And Jerusalem by iniquity.

城中的首领为贿赂行审判，祭司为雇价施教训，申言者为银钱行占卜；他们却信靠耶和华，说，耶和华不是在我们中间么？灾祸必不临到我们。
Her leaders judge for a bribe, / And her priests teach for hire, / And her prophets divine for money; / But they lean on Jehovah, saying, / Is not Jehovah in our midst? / Evil will not come upon us.

所以因你们的缘故，锡安必被耕种像田地，耶路撒冷必成为乱堆，这殿的山必成为丛林的高冈。
Therefore on account of you / Zion will be plowed as a field, / And Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, / And the mountain of the house will become the high places of a forest.