| 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?
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that1 ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that2 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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| 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips;3 for there is no answer of God.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 10 They build up Zion with blood,4 and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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| 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,5 Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
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| 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.
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