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And I said, Hear, I pray◦ you, O heads of Jacob, and ye captains of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?
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You who hate the good, and love the evil; robbing their skin from off them, and their muscle from off their bones;
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and who eat the muscle of My people, and strip their skin from off them; and they burst··out their bones, and spread them out, as◦ in the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the cauldron.
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Then▵ they shall cry to▵ Jehovah, but He will not answer them; and He will hide His face from them◦ at that◦ time, as◦ they have done··evil in their actions.
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Thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who make My people stray, who bite with their teeth, and proclaim, Peace! And he who gives not a kiss* on their mouth, against him they also sanctify war.
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Therefore it shall be night for you instead of a vision; and it shall be··dark for you instead of divination; and the sun shall set▵* over the prophets, and the day shall blacken over them.
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And the visionaries shall be··ashamed, and the diviners shall blush; they shall all cloak the upper··lip, for there is no answer of God.
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Nevertheless I▵ am··full of power with◦ the spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to tell to 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 captains of the house of Israel, who abominate judgment, and twist all the upright,
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who build Zion with bloods*, and Jerusalem with perversity:
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her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests instruct for a price, and her prophets divine for silver; and they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? Evil will not come upon us.
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Therefore because··of you shall Zion be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps▵, and the mountain of the house as the high··places of the forest.
