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Micah 3 📜 📕 ↷
Rulers and Prophets Condemned
1 AND I said: Hear ye Princes of Jacob, and ye dukes of the house of Israel: Why, is it not your part to know judgement,📜💬📚
2 which hate good, and love evil: which violently take away their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones?📜💬📚
3 Which have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flead their skin from them: and have broken, and cut their bones as in a kettle, and as it were flesh in the midst of a pot.📜💬📚
4 shall they cry to our Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have done wickedly in their inventions.📜💬📚
5 Thus saith our Lord upon the Prophets, that seduce my people: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something in their mouth, they sanctify battle upon him.📜💬📚
6 Therefore there shall be night to you for vision, and darkness to you for 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 all shall cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.📜💬📚
8 But yet I am replenished with the strength of the spirit of our Lord, with judgement, & 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: which abhor judgement, and pervert all right things.📜💬📚
10 Which build Sion in blood, and Jerusalem in iniquity.📜💬📚
11 Her Princes judged for gifts, and her Priests taught for wages, and her Prophets divined for money: and they rested upon our Lord, saying: Why, is not our Lord in the midst of us? Evils shall not come upon us.📜💬📚
12 For this, because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, & Jerusalem be as an heap of stones, and the mount of the temple as the high places of forests.📜💬📚
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