Book 20 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - MICAH - Chapter 003
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And I said: Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers
of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice
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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who rob their skin
from off them, and their flesh from off their bones
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Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin
from off them, and break their bones; yea, they chop them in pieces, as that
which is in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron
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Then shall they cry unto HaShem, but He will not answer
them; yea, He will hide His face from them at that time, according as they have
wrought evil in their doings
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Thus saith HaShem concerning the prophets that make my
people to err; that cry: 'Peace', when their teeth have any thing to bite; and
whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him
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Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no
vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun
shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them
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And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners
confounded; yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; for there shall be no
answer of G-d
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But I truly am full of power by the spirit of HaShem, and
of justice, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel
his sin
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Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and
rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity
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That build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with
iniquity
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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 HaShem, and say: 'Is not HaShem in the midst of us? No evil shall come
upon us'
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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 a forest
Book 20 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - MICAH - Chapter 003
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