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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
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# Chapter 3
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1. And I said:
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Hear, you heads of Jacob
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and 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 the good and love the evil,
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who tear the skin from off my people
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and their flesh from off their bones,
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3. who eat the flesh of my people,
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and flay their skin from off them,
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and break their bones in pieces
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and chop them up like meat in a pot,
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like flesh in a cauldron.
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4. Then they will cry to the LORD,
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but he will not answer them;
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he will hide his face from them at that time,
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because they have made their deeds evil.
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5. Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets
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who lead my people astray,
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who cry "Peace"
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when they have something to eat,
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but declare war against him
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who puts nothing into their mouths.
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6. Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision,
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and darkness to you, without divination.
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The sun shall go down on the prophets,
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and the day shall be black over them;
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7. the seers shall be disgraced,
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and the diviners put to shame;
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they shall all cover their lips,
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for there is no answer from God.
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8. But as for me, I am filled with power,
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with the Spirit of the LORD,
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and with 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. Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
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and rulers of the house of Israel,
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who detest justice
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and make crooked all that is straight,
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10. who build Zion with blood
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and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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11. Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
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its priests teach for a price;
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its prophets practice divination for money;
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yet they lean on the LORD and say,
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"Is not the LORD in the midst of us?
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No disaster shall come upon us."
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12. Therefore because of you
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Zion shall be plowed as a field;
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Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
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and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
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