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micah 3
1 - I said,"Please listen, you heads of Jacob,and rulers of the house of Israel:Isn't it for you to know justice?
2 - You who hate the good,and love the evil;who tear off their skin,and their flesh from off their bones;
3 - 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 meat within the cauldron.
4 - Then they will cry to The LORD,but he will not answer them.Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,because they made their deeds evil."
5 - The LORD says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
6 - "Therefore night is over you, with no vision,and it is dark to you, that you may not divine;and the sun will go down on the prophets,and the day will be black over them.
7 - The seers shall be disappointed,and the diviners confounded.Yes, they shall all cover their lips;for there is no answer from God."
8 - But as for me, I am full of power by The LORD's Spirit,and of judgment, and of might,to declare to Jacob his disobedience,and to Israel his sin.
9 - Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,and rulers of the house of Israel,who abhor justice,and pervert all equity.
10 - They build up Zion with blood,and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 - Her leaders judge for bribes,and her priests teach for a price,and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:yet they lean on The LORD, and say,"Isn't the LORD among us?No disaster will come on us."
12 - Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
