^{6 Ref} Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.

^{7 Ref} And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.

^{8 Ref} And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

^{9 Ref} Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

^{10 Ref} Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

^{11 Ref} Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'