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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "micah",
    "chapter": 3
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  "data": {
    "n": 3,
    "bookSlug": "micah",
    "bookCode": "MIC",
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    "title": "",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "MIC-3:1",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.1",
        "text": "I said,\n“Please listen, you heads of Jacob,\nand rulers of the house of Israel:\nIsn’t it for you to know justice?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "MIC-3:2",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.2",
        "text": "You who hate the good,\nand love the evil;\nwho tear off their skin,\nand their flesh from off their bones;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "MIC-3:3",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.3",
        "text": "who also eat the flesh of my people,\nand flay their skin from off them,\nand break their bones,\nand chop them in pieces, as for the pot,\nand as meat within the cauldron."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "MIC-3:4",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.4",
        "text": "Then they will cry to Yahweh,\nbut he will not answer them.\nYes, he will hide his face from them at that time,\nbecause they made their deeds evil.”"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "MIC-3:5",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.5",
        "text": "Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "MIC-3:6",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.6",
        "text": "“Therefore night is over you, with no vision,\nand it is dark to you, that you may not divine;\nand the sun will go down on the prophets,\nand the day will be black over them."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "MIC-3:7",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.7",
        "text": "The seers shall be disappointed,\nand the diviners confounded.\nYes, they shall all cover their lips;\nfor there is no answer from God.”"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "MIC-3:8",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.8",
        "text": "But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit,\nand of judgment, and of might,\nto declare to Jacob his disobedience,\nand to Israel his sin."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "MIC-3:9",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.9",
        "text": "Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,\nand rulers of the house of Israel,\nwho abhor justice,\nand pervert all equity."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "MIC-3:10",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.10",
        "text": "They build up Zion with blood,\nand Jerusalem with iniquity."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "MIC-3:11",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.11",
        "text": "Her leaders judge for bribes,\nand her priests teach for a price,\nand her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:\nyet they lean on Yahweh, and say,\n“Isn’t Yahweh among us?\nNo disaster will come on us.”"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "MIC-3:12",
        "verseRef": "MIC.3.12",
        "text": "Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,\nand Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,\nand the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest."
      }
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