13 (A)“For from the least to the greatest of them,
    everyone (B)is greedy for unjust gain;
and from (C)prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.

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11 (A)“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
    even (B)in my house I have found their evil,
declares the Lord.

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10 (A)Therefore I will give their wives to others
    and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
    everyone (B)is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.

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11 (A)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    (B)its priests teach for a price;
    (C)its prophets practice divination for money;
(D)yet they lean on the Lord and (E)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    (F)No disaster shall come upon us.”

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    you (A)who hate the good and love the evil,
(B)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
    and their flesh from off their bones,
(C)who eat the flesh of my people,
    and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
    and chop them up like meat in a pot,
    like flesh in a cauldron.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them

17 But you have eyes and heart
    only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.”

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(A)Her officials within her
    are roaring lions;
her judges are (B)evening wolves
    that leave nothing till the morning.
(C)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(D)her priests (E)profane what is holy;
    they do violence to the law.

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Thus says the Lord concerning (A)the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
(B)who cry “Peace”
    when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
    who puts nothing into their mouths.

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25 (A)The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is (B)like a roaring lion (C)tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (D)Her priests (E)have done violence to my law and (F)have profaned my holy things. (G)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and (H)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, (I)so that I am profaned among them. 27 (J)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (K)tearing the prey, (L)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And (M)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (N)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

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18 (A)If I go out into the field,
    behold, those pierced by the sword!
(B)And if I enter the city,
    behold, the diseases of famine!
(C)For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
    and have no knowledge.’”

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31 (A)the prophets prophesy falsely,
    and the priests rule at their direction;
(B)my people love to have it so,
    but what will you do when the end comes?

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17 Because of the iniquity of his (A)unjust gain I was angry,
    I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
    but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

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14 They have eyes full of adultery,[a] (A)insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts (B)trained in greed. (C)Accursed children! 15 Forsaking the right way, (D)they have gone astray. They have followed (E)the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved (F)gain from wrongdoing,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:14 Or eyes full of an adulteress

And (A)in their greed they will exploit you (B)with false words. (C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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not a drunkard, not violent but (A)gentle, not quarrelsome, (B)not a lover of money.

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The Law and the Kingdom of God

14 (A)The Pharisees, who were (B)lovers of money, heard all these things, and they (C)ridiculed him.

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Woe to the Oppressors

(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
They covet fields and (C)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.

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31 (A)And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for (B)with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

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12 In you (A)they take bribes to shed blood; (B)you take interest and profit[a] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (C)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)

13 This was for (A)the sins of her prophets
    and (B)the iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
    the blood of the righteous.

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32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—(A)their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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(A)The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then (B)the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!

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14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen a horrible thing:
(A)they commit adultery and walk in lies;
    (B)they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    so that no one turns from his evil;
(C)all of them have become like Sodom to me,
    (D)and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
(E)“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
    (F)and give them (G)poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

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26 “As a thief is shamed when caught,
    so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
(A)they, their kings, their officials,
    their priests, and their prophets,

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The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
    (A)Those who handle the law did not know me;
(B)the shepherds[a] transgressed against me;
    (C)the prophets prophesied by Baal
    and went after (D)things that do not profit.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:8 Or rulers

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