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Micah 3

3 And I said,

“Hear, please, heads of Jacob

and commanders of the house of Israel:

Is it not for you to know justice?

2 Haters of good and lovers of evil,

tearing their skin from upon them

and their flesh from upon their bones,

3 and who have eaten the flesh of my people,

and their skin from upon them they have stripped,

and their bones they have broken,

and they have chopped them up as what is in the pot,

and as flesh inside a cauldron.”

4 Then they will cry out to Yahweh,

but he will not answer them.

And he will hide his face from them at that time,

just as they have made their deeds evil.

5 Thus says Yahweh, “Concerning the prophets

causing my people to wander astray,

biting with their teeth, then they call out, ‘Peace!’

But whoever does not put something in their mouths,

they consecrate war against him.

6 Therefore, it will be night for you without vision,

and it will be dark for you without divining.

And the sun will go down on the prophets,

and the day will become dark over them.

7 And the seers will be ashamed,

and the diviners will be disgraced.

And all of them will cover over the mustache,

for there is no answer of God.

8 But I, in contrast, I am full of power,

the Spirit of Yahweh, and justice, and might,

to declare to Jacob his transgression

and to Israel his sin.

9 Hear this, please,

heads of the house of Jacob

and commanders of the house of Israel,

the ones abhorring justice

and making all of the straight things crooked,

10 building Zion with bloodshed

and Jerusalem with injustice.

11 Her heads judge for a bribe,

and her priests teach for a price,

and her prophets divine for silver.

Yet they lean on Yahweh, saying,

“Is not Yahweh in our midst?

Evil will not come upon us.”

12 Therefore, because of you,

Zion will be plowed as a field,

and Jerusalem will become heaps,

and the mountain of the house, as high places of a forest.

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