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3 Then I said, “Now listen,aj leaders of Jacob,
you rulers of the house of Israel.
Aren’t you supposed to know what is just?ak
2 You hate good and love evil.
You tear off people’s skinal
and strip their flesh from their bones.
3 You eat the flesham of my people
after you strip their skin from them
and break their bones.
You chop them upan
like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”
4 Then they will cry outao to the Lord,
but he will not answer them.
He will hide his face from them at that timeap
because of the crimes they have committed.
5 This is what the Lord says
concerning the prophets
who lead my people astray,aq
who proclaimar peace
when they have food to sink their teeth into
but declare war against the one
who puts nothing in their mouths.
6 Therefore, it will be nightas for you—
without visions;
without divination.a
The sun will setb on these prophets,
and the daylight will turn black over them.
7 Then the seers will be ashamedc
and the diviners disappointed.d
They will all cover their mouthsA,e
because there will be no answer from God.f
8 As for me, however, I am filled with powerg
by the Spirit of the Lord,
with justice and courage,
to proclaim to Jacob his rebellion
and to Israel his sin.h
9 Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob,i
you rulers of the house of Israel,
who abhor justicej
and pervert everything that is right,
10 who build Zion with bloodshedk
and Jerusalem with injustice.
11 Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe,l
her priests teach for payment,m
and her prophets practice divination for silver.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lordn among us?
No disaster will overtake us.”
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become ruins,o
and the temple’s mountainp
will be a high thicket.q
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