Micah 3:1WEB
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
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Micah 3:1WEB
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
Micah 3:2WEB
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3WEB
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Micah 3:4WEB
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Micah 3:5WEB
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:
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Micah 3:6WEB
“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
Micah 3:7WEB
The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.”
Micah 3:8WEB
But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Micah 3:9WEB
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,
Micah 3:10WEB
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Micah 3:11WEB
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Micah 3:12WEB
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.