Micah:3

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* Then said I , Hear , I pray you , ye heads of Jacob , and ye judges of the house of Israel , Is it not yours to know justice ? * Ye haters of right , and lovers of wrong , tearing away their skin from off them , and their flesh from off their bones ; * Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people , and , their skin from off them , have stript , and , their bones , have they broken in pieces , and will spread them out , as flesh with a fork , and as flesh , in the midst of a pot . * Then , shall they make outcry unto Yahweh , but he will not answer them , that he may hide his face from them , at that time , even as they have made wicked their doings . * Thus , saith Yahweh , concerning the prophets who are leading astray my people , who bite with their teeth , and then cry Prosper ! and whoso holdeth not to their mouth , they hallow against him a war ! * Therefore , shall it be night to you , for lack of vision , and darkness to you , for lack of divination , and the sun , shall go in , over the prophets , and the day , shall be overcast because of them ; * And the men of vision , shall turn pale , and the diviners , shall blush , and shall put a covering upon their lip , all of them , because there is no answer of God . * But , in very deed , I , am full of vigour , with the spirit of Yahweh , and of justice and of valour , to declare to Jacob , his transgression , and to Israel , his sin . * Hear this , I pray you , ye heads of the house of Jacob , and ye judges of the house of Israel , who abhor justice , and , all right , do pervert : * Building Zion , with deeds of blood , and Jerusalem , with perversity . * Her heads , for a bribe , pronounce sentence , and , her priests , for a price , give direction , and , her prophets , for silver , divine , yet , on Yahweh , they lean , saying , Is not , Yahweh , in our midst ? there shall not come upon us , calamity . * Wherefore , for your sake , Zion , as a field , shall be ploughed , and , Jerusalem , unto heaps of ruins , shall be turned , and , the mountain of the house , shall

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