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  "citation": "Micheas 3 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment and pervert all that is right.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.",
      "citation": "Micheas 3:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.",
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