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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 3
Priests who teach for hire, and prophets who divine for money, bring a
curse upon the people.
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1 AND I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4 Then shall they acry unto
the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at
that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
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5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD concerning the
aprophets that make my people err, that bite with their
teeth, and cry, bPeace; and he that putteth not into their
mouths, they even prepare cwar against him.
6 Therefore anight shall
be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark
unto youa, that ye shall not
bdivine; and the csun shall go down over
the dprophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
7 Then shall the seers be
aashamed, and the bdiviners confounded:
yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is
cno answer of God.
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6a ye shall not have a vision; and it
shall be dark unto you This is the same as was said by Amos that
there would be a famine in the land from hearing the words of the LORD (Amos
8:11). The Lord would withdraw himself from Israel and there would be a
time of apostasy when the power of God would not attend the people either in
vision or by prophet leadership. This is the condition of sacttered Israel
who the Lord did turn his back upon.
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8 ¶ But truly I am full of
apower by the bspirit of the LORD, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his
ctransgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the
priests thereof teach for hire, and the aprophets thereof
divine for bmoney: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and
say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
12 Therefore shall Zion for your
asake be bplowed as a field, and
cJerusalem shall become eheaps, and the
mountain of ethe house as the high places of the
forest.
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