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?
02 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who
pluck off their skin from off them, and their
flesh from off their bones;
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye
shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark
unto you, that 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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07 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the
diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover
their lips; for there is no answer of God.
08 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.
09 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.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem
with iniquity.
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, Is not the Lord among us? none
evil can come upon us.
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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