Micah 3

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1 And I said: Hear, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know the truth?
2 But you hate the good and love the evil; Rip off their skin and flesh from their bones,
3 Eat the flesh of my people, and rip their skin off of them, and break their bones and crush them into a pot, and the flesh into a cauldron.
4 And they will cry out to the Lord, but He will not hear them and hide His face from them for the time that they are evil.
5 Thus says the Lord to the prophets, who mislead my people, who gnaw their teeth - and preach peace, and whoever puts nothing in their mouths, is declared war against it.
6th Therefore, night will be to you instead of a vision, and darkness - instead of forebears; The sun will go down over the prophets and the day will turn dark over them.
7th And the seers will be ashamed, and the diviners will be put to shame, and all of them will close their mouth, because there will be no answer from God.

8 But I am full of the power of the Spirit of the Lord, right and firmness, to tell Jacob his crime and Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, the heads of the house of Jacob, and the princes of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and twist all that is straight,
10 Who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with untruth!
eleven His heads are judged for gifts, and his priests are taught for a fee, and his prophets foretell for money, yet they lean on the Lord, saying, "Is not the Lord among us?" We shall not be troubled! "
12 Therefore for you Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble, and the mountain of this house will be a wooded hill.

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