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Scripture Text (NRSV)
3:5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my
people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but
declare war against those who put nothing into their mouths.
3:6 Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and
darkness to you, without revelation. The sun shall go down upon the
prophets, and the day shall be black over them;
3:7 the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to
shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from
God.
3:8 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of
the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his
transgression and to Israel his sin.
3:9 Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of
the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
3:10 who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong!
3:11 Its rulers give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach
for a price, its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon
the LORD and say, "Surely the LORD is with us! No harm shall come upon
us."
3:12 Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house
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