Moff MIC Chapter 3

3 I said also:

Listen, now, leaders of Jacob,

judges over the house of Israel;

you haters of right and lovers of wrong,

is not a sense of justice due from you?

But they devour my people’s flesh

and strip them of their skin,

laying bare their very bones,

chopping them up like flesh for the pot,

like meat in a cauldron.

One day they shall cry to the Eternal,

but he will never heed them;

he will hide his face from them,

for the crimes they have committed.

“And as for the prophets,” the Eternal says,

“who lead my folk astray,

who cry ‘All’s well!’ if they get food to eat,

and open war on any who deny them--

it shall be night for you, devoid of vision,

so dark that you cannot divine;

the sun shall set upon the prophets,

daylight shall darken over them,

till seers are shamed,

and the diviners blush,

in mourning, all of them,

because no answer comes from God.”

But I am full of strength and skill and courage,

inspired by the Eternal,

to let Jacob know its crimes,

and Israel its sins.

Leaders of Jacob, listen to this,

you judges over the house of Israel,

who spurn at justice and twist equity,

who build your Sion up with bloodshed

and Jerusalem on crime,

judges passing verdicts for a bribe,

priests pattering oracles for pay,

prophets divining for money,

and all the while relying on the Eternal,

saying, “Surely the Eternal is among us;

no evil can befall us!”

Therefore on your account

shall Sion be ploughed up like a field,

Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,

the temple-hill merely a wooded height. * * *