Micah 3

Rulers and Prophets Denounced

1And I said:

# See ch. 1:2 Hear, you heads of Jacob

and rulers of the house of Israel!

# Jer. 5:5; [Ezek. 22:6, 27] Is it not for you to know justice?—

2you #[ver. 9] who hate the good and love the evil,

# [Ezek. 34:3] who tear the skin from off my people#3:2 Hebrew from off them

and their flesh from off their bones,

3 # [Ps. 14:4; Isa. 3:15] 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.

4 # See Prov. 1:28 Then they will cry to the Lord,

but he will not answer them;

# Isa. 1:15; See Deut. 31:17 he will hide his face from them at that time,

because they have made their deeds evil.

5Thus says the Lord concerning #Jer. 23:13, 32; Ezek. 13:10 the prophets

who lead my people astray,

# [Jer. 6:14] who cry “Peace”

when they have something to eat,

but declare war against him

who puts nothing into their mouths.

6Therefore #Ezek. 12:24; 13:23 it shall be night to you, without vision,

and darkness to you, without divination.

# See Amos 8:9 The sun shall go down on the prophets,

and the day shall be black over them;

7 # Zech. 13:4; [Jer. 37:19] the seers shall be disgraced,

and the diviners put to shame;

# [Lev. 13:45] they shall all cover their lips,

for #See Amos 8:11there is no answer from God.

8But as for me, #[Jer. 6:11] I am filled with power,

with the Spirit of the Lord,

and with justice and might,

to declare to Jacob #ch. 1:5; Isa. 58:1; [Ezek. 23:36]his transgression

and to Israel his sin.

9 # See ch. 1:2 Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob

and rulers of the house of Israel,

# [ver. 2] who detest justice

and make crooked all that is straight,

10 # Jer. 22:13; Ezek. 22:27; Hab. 2:12 who build Zion with blood

and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 # ch. 7:3; Isa. 1:23 Its heads give judgment for a bribe;

# See Jer. 6:13 its priests teach for a price;

# [ver. 5; Ezek. 22:25] its prophets practice divination for money;

# Isa. 48:2 yet they lean on the Lord and #Jer. 7:4; [Amos 5:14] say,

“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?

# [Jer. 23:17; Amos 9:10] No disaster shall come upon us.”

12Therefore because of you

# Cited Jer. 26:18 Zion shall be plowed as a field;

Jerusalem #[ch. 1:6] shall become a heap of ruins,

and #ch. 4:2 the mountain of the house #[Luke 13:35]a wooded height.

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