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1 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? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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. 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the di­vin­ers con­found­ed: yea, they shall all cov­er their lips; for there is no an­swer of God. 8 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. 9 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.