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Israel’s Leaders Denounced

And I said,
“Listen, O heads of Jacob
    and leaders of the house of Israel!
    Is it not for you to know justice?
Those of you who are haters of good
    and lovers of evil,
who tear their skin from them
    and their flesh from their bones,
and who eat the flesh of my people,
    and strip their skin from them,
and break their bones,
    and chop them like meat in the pot,
    and like flesh in the midst of a cooking pot.”
Then they will cry to Yahweh,
    but he will not answer them.
He will hide his face from them at that time,
    when they have made their deeds evil.

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“He will say, ‘Listen, you leaders of Jacob,
you officials of the house of Israel!
You should know justice, should you not?—
you who despise good and love evil,
    who tear off the skin of my people,[a]
        along with the flesh from their bones.
You eat the flesh of my people,
    flaying their skin from them.
You break their bones,
    chopping them in pieces like meat[b] for a pot,
        like meat destined for a soup kettle.’

“Then they will cry to the Lord,
    but he will not listen to them.
In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time,
    because they were so wicked in what they were doing.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:2 The Heb. lacks of my people
  2. Micah 3:3 The Heb. lacks meat