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chapter 3
1
And I
said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it
not your part to know judgment,
2 You that hate good, and love evil: that violently
pluck off their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones?
3 Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have
flayed their skin from off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as
for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.
4 Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear
them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved
wickedly in their devices.
5 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make
my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give
not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.
6 Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision,
and darkness to you instead of divination; and the sun shall go down upon the
prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.
7 And they shall be confounded that see visions, and
the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because
there is no answer of God.
8 But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit
of the Lord, with judgment, and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness,
and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye
judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment, and pervert all that is
right.
10 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem
with iniquity.
11 Her princes have judged for bribes, and her priests
have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon
the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon
us.
12 Therefore, because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as
a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the
temple as the high places of the forests.
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