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The Lord Warns Israel’s Leaders and Prophets

Then I said,

“Listen, you leaders of Jacob’s people!
    Pay attention, you rulers of Israel!
You should want to judge others fairly.
    But you hate what is good.
    And you love what is evil.
You are like someone
    who tears the skin off my people.
    You pull the meat off their bones.
You eat my people’s bodies.
    You strip off their skin.
    You break their bones in pieces.
You chop them up like meat.
    You put them in a cooking pot.”

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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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