1And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

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Isaiah 1:10, Hosea 5:1, Psalms 82:1, Psalms 82:5, Jeremiah 5:4

2You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

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Ezekiel 22:27, Ezekiel 22:27, Proverbs 28:4, Psalms 53:4, Proverbs 28:4

3Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

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Psalms 14:4, Psalms 14:4, Ezekiel 11:6, Ezekiel 11:7, Ezekiel 11:3

4Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.

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Proverbs 1:28, Isaiah 1:15, Proverbs 1:28, Isaiah 1:15, Ezekiel 8:18

5Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.

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Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:15, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:15

6Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.

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Isaiah 8:20, Isaiah 8:22, Isaiah 8:20, Isaiah 8:22, Isaiah 29:10

7And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.

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Zechariah 13:4, Isaiah 44:25, Zechariah 13:4, Isaiah 44:25, Ezekiel 24:17

8But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.

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Isaiah 58:1, Isaiah 58:1, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 Corinthians 2:13, 1 Corinthians 2:12

9Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment and pervert all that is right.

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Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 1:23, Psalms 58:1, Psalms 58:2, Psalms 58:1

10You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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Habakkuk 2:9, Habakkuk 2:12, Habakkuk 2:9, Habakkuk 2:12, Jeremiah 22:13

11Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.

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Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 6:13, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 1:23, Micah 3:5

12Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.

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Jeremiah 26:18, Jeremiah 26:18, Psalms 79:1, Psalms 79:1, Micah 4:1