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\c 3
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\p
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\v 1 Then I said, "You Israelite leaders, listen to what I say!
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\q1 You should certainly know what things are right to do
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\q2 and what things are wrong,
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\q1
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\v 2 but you hate what is good
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\q1 and love what is evil.
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\q2 You act like butchers:
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\q1 it is as though you strip the skin off my people
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\q2 and tear the flesh from their bones.
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\q1
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\v 3 It is as though you chop them into pieces like meat to be cooked in a pot.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 Then, when you have troubles, you plead to Yahweh to help you,
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\q2 but he will not answer you.
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\q1 At that time, he will turn his face away from you
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\q2 because of the evil things that you have done."
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\s5
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\p
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\v 5 This is what Yahweh says
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\q1 about your false prophets who are deceiving the people:
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\q2 "If someone gives them food,
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\q1 those prophets say that things will go well for him.
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\q2 But they declare that I will punish anyone who does not give them food.
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\q1
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\v 6 So now it is as though night will descend on you prophets;
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\q2 you will not receive any more visions.
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\q1 It is as though the sun will set for you;
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\q2 the time when you are greatly honored will end.
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\q1
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\v 7 Then you seers will be disgraced;
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\q2 you will cover your faces because you will be ashamed,
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\q2 because when you ask me what will happen, there will be no answer from me."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 But as for me, I am full of God's power,
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\q2 power from the Spirit of Yahweh.
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\q1 I am just and strong
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\q2 and declare to the Israelite people
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\q2 that they have sinned and rebelled against Yahweh.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 9 You leaders of the people of Israel, listen to this:
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\q2 You hate it when people do what is just,
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\q1 and when people say what is true,
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\q2 you say it is false.
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\q1
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\v 10 It is as though you are building houses in Jerusalem on foundations
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\q2 that consist of murdering people and doing what is corrupt.
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\q1
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\v 11 Your leaders make favorable decisions only if they receive bribes.
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\q2 Your priests teach people only if those people pay them well.
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\q2 Your false prophets require people to pay them to tell people what will happen to them in the future.
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\q1 Those prophets say, "Yahweh is telling us what we should say,
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\q2 and we say that we will not experience any disasters."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 Because of what you leaders do,
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\q2 Mount Zion will be plowed like a field;
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\q1 it will become a heap of ruins.
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\q2 The top of the hill, where the temple is now, will be covered with trees.
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