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Moff MIC Chapter 3

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3 I said also:

Listen, now, leaders of Jacob,

judges over the house of Israel;

you haters of right and lovers of wrong,

is not a sense of justice due from you?

But they devour my people’s flesh

and strip them of their skin,

laying bare their very bones,

chopping them up like flesh for the pot,

like meat in a cauldron.

One day they shall cry to the Eternal,

but he will never heed them;

he will hide his face from them,

for the crimes they have committed.

“And as for the prophets,” the Eternal says,

“who lead my folk astray,

who cry ‘All’s well!’ if they get food to eat,

and open war on any who deny them--

it shall be night for you, devoid of vision,

so dark that you cannot divine;

the sun shall set upon the prophets,

daylight shall darken over them,

till seers are shamed,

and the diviners blush,

in mourning, all of them,

because no answer comes from God.”

But I am full of strength and skill and courage,

inspired by the Eternal,

to let Jacob know its crimes,

and Israel its sins.

Leaders of Jacob, listen to this,

you judges over the house of Israel,

who spurn at justice and twist equity,

who build your Sion up with bloodshed

and Jerusalem on crime,

judges passing verdicts for a bribe,

priests pattering oracles for pay,

prophets divining for money,

and all the while relying on the Eternal,

saying, “Surely the Eternal is among us;

no evil can befall us!”

Therefore on your account

shall Sion be ploughed up like a field,

Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,

the temple-hill merely a wooded height. * * *

4 In after days it shall be

that the Eternal’s hill shall rise,

towering over every hill,

and higher than the heights.

Nations shall stream to it,

and many a people shall exclaim,

“Come, let us go to the Eternal’s hill,

to the house of Jacob’s God,

that he may instruct us in his ways,

to walk upon his paths.”

For instruction comes from Sion,

and from Jerusalem the Eternal’s word.

He will decide disputes of many races,

and arbitrate between strong foreign powers,

till swords are beaten into ploughshares,

spears into pruning-hooks;

no nation draws the sword against another,

no longer shall men learn to fight,

but live each underneath his vine

and underneath his fig-tree,

in terror of no one:

for so the lips of the Lord of hosts decree.

[[All nations may live loyal, each to its own god,

but we will live ever loyal to our God the Eternal.]]

On that day, the Eternal promises,

I will collect the stragglers,

I will gather the outcast whom I once afflicted;

I will make the lame the nucleus of a nation,

make the sick into a power,

with the Eternal reigning over them on Sion hill,

henceforth and for all time.

I will collect all Jacob,

gather Israel’s survivors,

all together like sheep in a fold,

like a flock in its pasture,

with the stir and noise of numbers;

the bell-wether opens the way for them,

and out they pour and pass,

led as by their King,

by the Eternal at their head.

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