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# Chapter 3
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1 And I said:
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“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
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And you rulers of the house of Israel:
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Is it not for you to know justice?
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2 You who hate good and love evil;
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Who strip the skin from My people,
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And the flesh from their bones;
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3 Who also eat the flesh of My people,
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Flay their skin from them,
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Break their bones,
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And chop them in pieces
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Like meat for the pot,
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Like flesh in the caldron.”
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4 Then they will cry to the Lord,
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But He will not hear them;
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He will even hide His face from them at that time,
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Because they have been evil in their deeds.
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5 Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets
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Who make my people stray;
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Who chant “Peace”
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While they chew with their teeth,
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But who prepare war against him
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Who puts nothing into their mouths:
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6 “Therefore you shall have night without vision,
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And you shall have darkness without divination;
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The sun shall go down on the prophets,
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And the day shall be dark for them.
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7 So the seers shall be ashamed,
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And the diviners abashed;
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Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
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For there is no answer from God.”
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8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,
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And of justice and might,
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To declare to Jacob his transgression
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And to Israel his sin.
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9 Now hear this,
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You heads of the house of Jacob
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And rulers of the house of Israel,
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Who abhor justice
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And pervert all equity,
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10 Who build up Zion with bloodshed
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And Jerusalem with iniquity:
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11 Her heads judge for a bribe,
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Her priests teach for pay,
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And her prophets divine for money.
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Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
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“Is not the Lord among us?
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No harm can come upon us.”
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12 Therefore because of you
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Zion shall be plowed like a field,
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Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
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And the mountain of the temple
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Like the bare hills of the forest. |