{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Micah",
 "chapter": 3,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Then shall they cry 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest."
  }
 ],
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}