Micah 3
Israel's Leaders
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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:
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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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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the
diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
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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.
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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.
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They build up Zion with blood, and
Jerusalem with iniquity.
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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.
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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. Jer.
26.18
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