Ezekiel 22:6
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6 “Look, (A)the princes of Israel: each one has used his [a]power to shed blood in you.
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- Ezekiel 22:6 Lit. arm
Ezekiel 22:27
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27 Her (A)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [a]people, and to get dishonest gain.
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- Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls
Isaiah 1:23
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23 (A)Your princes are rebellious,
And (B)companions of thieves;
(C)Everyone loves bribes,
And follows after rewards.
They (D)do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
Zechariah 3:3
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3 Now Joshua was clothed with (A)filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel.
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Micah 3:9-11
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9 Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And [a]pervert all equity,
10 (A)Who build up Zion with (B)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 (C)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(D)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [b]money.
(E)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
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- Micah 3:9 Lit. twist
- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
Micah 3:1-3
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Wicked Rulers and Prophets
3 And I said:
“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you (A)rulers of the house of Israel:
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?
2 You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from [a]My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
3 Who also (C)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
(D)Like flesh in the caldron.”
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- Micah 3:2 Lit. them
Micah 2:1
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Woe to Evildoers
2 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And [a]work out evil on their beds!
At (A)morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.
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- Micah 2:1 Plan
Daniel 9:8
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8 “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
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Jeremiah 32:32
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32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—(A)they, their kings, their princes, their priests, (B)their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 5:5
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5 I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For (A)they have known the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.”
But these have altogether (B)broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 2:26-27
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26 “As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,
So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their (A)prophets,
27 Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a (B)stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their (C)trouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’
Nehemiah 9:34
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34 Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.
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