Micah:3

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* And I said , Hear , I pray you , ye heads of Jacob , and rulers of the house of Israel . Is it not for you to know justice ? * Ye who hate the good , and love the evil , who pluck off their skin from off them , and their flesh from off their bones , * 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 . * Then they shall cry to LORD , 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 . * Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err , who bite with their teeth , and cry , Peace . And he who does not put into their mouths , they even prepare war against him . * Therefore it shall be night to you , that ye shall have no vision . And it shall be dark to you , that ye shall not divine . And the sun shall go down upon the prophets , and the day shall be black over them . * And the seers shall be put to shame , and the diviners confounded . Yea , they shall all cover their lips , for there is no answer from God . * But as for me , I am full of power by the Spirit of LORD , and of judgment , and of might , to declare to Jacob his transgression , and to Israel his sin . * Hear this , I pray you , ye heads of the house of Jacob , and rulers of the house of Israel , who abhor justice , and pervert all equity . * They build up Zion with blood , and Jerusalem with iniquity . * The heads of it judge for a bribe , and the priests of it teach for a wage , and the prophets of it divine for money . Yet they lean upon LORD , and say , Is not LORD in the midst of us ? No evil shall come upon us . * Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field , and Jerusalem shall become heaps , and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest .

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