Hear ye this, O kohanim; and hearken, ye house of Yisrael; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tavor.
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.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which YY thy Elohim giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Yisrael and Yhudah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, YY hath forsaken the earth, and YY seeth not.
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisrael, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith YY Elohim unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Yisrael that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and YY on the head of them.
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!