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MICAH ยท Chapter 3
3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and all of you princes
of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin
from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off
them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
and as flesh within the caldron.
3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he
will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves
ill in their doings.
3:5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people
go astray, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts
not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that all of you shall not have
a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that all of you shall not divine;
and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark
over them.
3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea,
they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to
Israel his sin.
3:9 Hear this, I pray you, all of you heads of the house of Jacob,
and princes of the house of Israel, that detest judgment, and pervert all
equity.
3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach
for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean
upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon
us.
3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem
shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of
the forest.
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