3:4 Her prophets are proud; 1
they are deceitful men.
Her priests defile what is holy; 2
they break God’s laws. 3
1 sn Applied to prophets, the word פֹּחֲזִים (pokhazim, “proud”) probably refers to their audacity in passing off their own words as genuine prophecies from the
2 tn Or “defile the temple.”
sn These priests defile what is holy by not observing the proper distinctions between what is ritually clean and unclean (see Ezek 22:26).
3 tn Heb “they treat violently [the] law.”