25 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: (A)“You eat meat with blood, you (B)lift up your eyes toward your idols, and (C)shed blood. Should you then possess the (D)land?

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26 You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you (A)defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’

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Wicked Rulers and Prophets

And I said:

“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you (A)rulers of the house of Israel:
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?
You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from [a]My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
Who also (C)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
(D)Like flesh in the caldron.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:2 Lit. them

whose owners slaughter them and (A)feel no guilt; those who sell them (B)say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich’; and their shepherds do (C)not pity them.

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