Micah Chapter 3 (NIV)
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Leaders and Prophets RebukedThen I said,“Listen, you leaders of Jacob,you rulers of the house of Israel.Should you not know justice,
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you who hate good and love evil;who tear the skin from my peopleand the flesh from their bones;
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who eat my people’s flesh,strip off their skinand 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 thembecause of the evil they have done.
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This is what the Lord says:“As for the prophetswho lead my people astray,if one feeds them,they proclaim ‘peace’;if he does not,they prepare to wage war against him.
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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 ashamedand the diviners disgraced.They will all cover their facesbecause 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 the house of Jacob,you rulers of the house of Israel,who despise justiceand 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 lean upon the Lord 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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