Ezekiel 34:3
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3 (A)You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, (B)you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.
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Zechariah 11:16
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16 For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd (A)who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but (B)devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
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Zechariah 11:5
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5 (A)Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, (B)I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.
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Micah 3:1-3
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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 And I said:
(A)Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?—
2 you (C)who hate the good and love the evil,
(D)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (E)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Ezekiel 33:25-26
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25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: (A)You eat flesh with the blood and (B)lift up your eyes to your idols and (C)shed blood; shall you then possess the land? 26 (D)You rely on the sword, (E)you commit abominations, and (F)each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?
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Ezekiel 22:25-28
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25 (A)The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is (B)like a roaring lion (C)tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (D)Her priests (E)have done violence to my law and (F)have profaned my holy things. (G)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and (H)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, (I)so that I am profaned among them. 27 (J)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (K)tearing the prey, (L)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And (M)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (N)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
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Ezekiel 19:6
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6 He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men,
Ezekiel 19:3
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3 And she brought up one of her cubs;
(A)he became a young lion,
(B)and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.
Lamentations 4:13
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13 This was for (A)the sins of her prophets
and (B)the iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.
Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Jeremiah 2:30
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30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
Isaiah 56:11-12
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11 (A)The dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But (B)they are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
(C)each to his own gain, one and all.
12 (D)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(E)and tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”
Isaiah 1:15
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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(C)your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1:10
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10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of (A)(B)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching[a] of our God,
you people of (C)Gomorrah!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:10 Or law
2 Kings 21:16
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16 (A)Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin (B)that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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1 Kings 21:13-16
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13 And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”
15 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.” 16 And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
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Zephaniah 3:3
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3 (A)Her officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are (B)evening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.
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