Micah
Chapter Three
1 ¶ And I said: "Hear
now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for
you to know justice?
2 You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the
flesh from their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their
bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron."
4 Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide
His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.
5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets Who make my people stray; Who chant
"Peace" While they chew with their teeth, But who prepare war against
him Who puts nothing into their mouths:
6 "Therefore you shall have night without vision, And you shall have darkness
without divination; The sun shall go down on the prophets, And the day shall
be dark for them.
7 So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall
all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God."
8 ¶ But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, And of justice
and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.
9 Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of
Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity,
10 Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets
divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, "Is not the LORD
among us? No harm can come upon us."
12 Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall
become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of
the forest.
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