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Micah 3 (NIV)
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Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,
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you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
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who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”
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Then they will cry out to the Lord , but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.
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This is what the Lord says: “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim ‘peace’ if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them.
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Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them.
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The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God.”
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But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord , and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.
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Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;
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who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
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Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord ’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.”
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Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
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