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You eat the flesh of my people,
    flaying their skin from them.
You break their bones,
    chopping them in pieces like meat[a] for a pot,
        like meat destined for a soup kettle.’

“Then they will cry to the Lord,
    but he will not listen to them.
In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time,
    because they were so wicked in what they were doing.”

God’s Judgment against False Prophets

“This is what the Lord says about the prophets
    who are causing my people to go astray,
who are calling out ‘Peace’ when they’re being fed,[b]
    but who declare war against those who won’t feed them:[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:3 The Heb. lacks meat
  2. Micah 3:5 Lit. who bite with their teeth, crying out “Peace”
  3. Micah 3:5 Lit. against him who puts nothing in their mouths