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10 You build Jerusalem by murdering people.
    You build it with the sins you do.
11 The judges in Jerusalem take money
    to decide who wins in court.
The priests in Jerusalem only teach for pay.
    The prophets only look into the future when they get paid.
But yet those leaders say,
    “The Lord is with us.
    Nothing bad will happen to us.”
12 Because of you,
    Jerusalem will be plowed like a field.
Jerusalem will become a pile of rocks.
    The hill on which the Temple stands will be covered with bushes.

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10 who build(A) Zion with bloodshed,(B)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.(C)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(D)
    her priests teach for a price,(E)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(F)
Yet they look(G) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”(H)
12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(I)
    the temple(J) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.(K)

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