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Chapter 3

The Leader Devours the Chair of My People

Then I said:

Listen, you leaders of the house of Jacob,
    you rulers of the house of Israel.
Should you not be responsible
    to know what is right?
And yet you hate what is good
    and love what is evil.
You eat the flesh of my people
    and strip off their skin;
you break their bones into pieces
    like flesh for the pot,
    like meat in a cauldron.

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Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

Then I said,

“Listen, you leaders(A) of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,
    you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;(B)
who eat my people’s flesh,(C)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;(D)
who chop(E) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?(F)

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