1: And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye
princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
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2: 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 they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for
the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
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4: Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them:
he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved
themselves ill in their doings. |
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5: Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my
people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that
putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. |
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6: Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a
vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the
sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over
them. |
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7: Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded:
yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
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8: But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to
Israel his sin. |
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9: Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and
princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all
equity. |
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10: They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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11: The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof
teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they
lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can
come upon us. |
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12: 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 the forest. |