| Chapter 3
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| 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? |
| 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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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. |
| 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. |
