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Rh :By the gate, and are gone out thereat;
 * And their king is passed on before them,
 * And the at the head of them.


 * And I said:
 * Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob,
 * And rulers of the house of Israel:
 * Is it not for you to know justice?
 * Who hate the good, and love the evil;
 * Who rob their skin from off them,
 * And their flesh from off their bones,
 * Who also eat tie flesh of my people,
 * And flay their skin from off them,
 * And break their bones;
 * Yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot,
 * And as flesh within the caldron.
 * Then shall they cry unto the ,
 * But He will not answer them;
 * Yea, He will hide His face from them at that time,
 * According as they have wrought evil in their doings.


 * Thus saith the concerning the prophets that make my people to err;
 * That cry: 'Peace', when their teeth have any thing to bite;
 * And whoso putteth not into their mouths,
 * They even prepare war against him:
 * Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision;
 * And it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine;
 * And the sun shall go down upon the prophets,
 * And the day shall be black over them.
 * And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded;
 * Yea, they shall all cover their upper lips;
 * For there shall be no answer of God.
 * But I truly am full of power by the spirit of the ,
 * And of justice, and of might,
 * To declare unto Jacob his transgression,
 * And to Israel his sin.


 * Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob,
 * And rulers of the house of Israel,
 * That abhor justice, and pervert all equity;
 * That build up Zion with blood,
 * And Jerusalem with iniquity.
 * 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, and say:
 * 'Is not the in the midst of us?
 * No evil shall come upon us'?
 * 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 a forest.


 * But in the end of days it shall come to pass,
 * That the mountain of the house shall be established as the top of the mountains,
 * And it shall be exalted above the hills;
 * And peoples shall flow unto it.
 * And many nations shall go and say:
 * 'Come ye l and let us go up to the
 * mountain of the ,
 * And to the house of the God of Jacob;
 * And He will teach us of His ways,
 * And we will walk in His paths';