Mic 3
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And I said, Hear, I pray you, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel:
is it not for you to know justice?
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you who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them,
and their flesh from off their bones;
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who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break
their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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Then shall they cry to YHWH, but he will not answer them; yea, he will hide his face
from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.
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Thus says YHWH concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with
their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso puts not into their mouths, they even prepare
war against him:
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Therefore it shall be night to you, that you shall have no vision; and it shall be
dark to you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them.
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And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall
all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
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But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of YHWH, and of judgment, and of might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
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Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of
Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
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They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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Its heads judge for reward, and its priests teach for hire, and the
prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon YHWH, and say, Is not YHWH in
the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become
heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.