I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of YY , and the judgment of their Elohim: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the kohanim thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon YY , and say, Is not YY among us? none evil can come upon us.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Shomron, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the kohen every one dealeth falsely.
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith YY .
Moreover all the chief of the kohanim, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of YY which he had hallowed in Yerushalayim.
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
O generation, see ye the word of YY . Have I been a wilderness unto Yisrael? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are YY s; we will come no more unto thee?
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of YY .
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.