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1 Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
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1 Then I said, "Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice,
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2 but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
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2 you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
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3 You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
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3 who eat my people's flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?"
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4 Then you beg the LORD for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to listen? After all the evil you have done, he won't even look at you!
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4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.
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5 This is what the LORD says to you false prophets: "You are leading my people astray! You promise peace for those who give you food, but you declare war on anyone who refuses to pay you.
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5 This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who 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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6 Now the night will close around you, cutting off all your visions. Darkness will cover you, making it impossible for you to predict the future. The sun will set for you prophets, and your day will come to an end.
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6 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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7 Then you seers will cover your faces in shame, and you diviners will be disgraced. And you will admit that your messages were not from God."
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7 The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God."
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8 But as for me, I am filled with power and the Spirit of the LORD. I am filled with justice and might, fearlessly pointing out Israel's sin and rebellion.
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8 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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9 Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
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9 Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;
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10 You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
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10 who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
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11 You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
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11 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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12 So because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field; Jerusalem will be reduced to rubble! A great forest will grow on the hilltop, where the Temple now stands.
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12 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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| Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. (New Living Translation - The Bible Online) |
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