1I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

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

2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

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

3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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

4Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."

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

5Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

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

6"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

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

7The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God."

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

8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, 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

9Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

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

10They build up Zion 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 leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the Lord, and say, "Isn't the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."

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

12Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

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