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is polluted, it shall destroy
you,
even with a sore destruction.
11
If a man walking in the spirit and
falsehood do lie,
saying,
I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the
prophet of this people.
12
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will
put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make
great noise by reason of
the multitude of
men.
13
The breaker is come up before them: they have
broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before
them, and the L
ORD
on the head of them.
CHAPTER 3
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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
, and say,
Is
not the L
ORD
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.
CHAPTER 4
But in the last days it shall come to pass,
that
the mountain of the house of the L
ORD
shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow
unto it.
2
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the
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