| Chapter 3 |
| 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; |
| 3 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 10 | They build
up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
