Micah 3

1 I said, ‡ Hos 5:1Isa 1:10Jer 5:4-5Psa 82:1-51Co 6:52Ch 19:5-10Amo 4:1Deu 1:13-17 +5

“Please listen, you heads of Jacob,

and rulers of the house of Israel:

Isn’t it for you to know justice?

2 You who hate the good, ‡ Ezk 22:27Pro 28:4Psa 53:41Ki 21:201Ki 22:6-82Ch 19:2Rom 12:92Ti 3:3 +15

and love the evil;

who tear off their skin,

and their flesh from off their bones;

3 who also eat the flesh of my people, ‡ Psa 14:4Ezk 11:3Ezk 11:6-7Zep 3:3

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.

4 Then they will cry to the LORD, ‡ Isa 1:15Pro 1:28Ezk 8:18Psa 18:41Deu 31:17-18Deu 32:19-20Mat 7:22Isa 3:11 +11

but he will not answer them.

Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,

because they made their deeds evil.”

5 The LORD 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: ‡ Jer 14:14-15Jer 6:14Ezk 13:10-16Ezk 22:25-29Isa 9:15-16Jer 23:32Jer 23:9-17Jer 28:15-17 +11

6 “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, ‡ Isa 8:20-22Amo 8:9-10Isa 29:10Isa 59:10Ezk 13:22-23Jer 13:16Jer 15:9Psa 74:9 +1

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.

7 The seers shall be disappointed, ‡ Isa 44:25Zec 13:41Sa 28:6Amo 8:11Ezk 24:17Isa 47:12-14Lev 13:451Sa 14:37 +9

and the diviners confounded.

Yes, they shall all cover their lips,

for there is no answer from God.” ¹

8 But as for me, I am full of power by the LORD’s Spirit, ‡ Isa 58:11Co 2:12-131Co 2:4Isa 11:2-3Act 18:9-11Act 4:8-12Act 7:54-57Ezk 16:2 +16

and of judgment, and of might,

to declare to Jacob his disobedience,

and to Israel his sin.

9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, ‡ Isa 1:23Psa 58:1-2Pro 17:15Deu 27:19Exo 3:16Hos 5:1Jer 5:28Lev 26:15 +1

and rulers of the house of Israel,

who abhor justice,

and pervert all equity,

10 who build up Zion with blood, ‡ Hab 2:9-12Jer 22:13-17Mat 27:25Ezk 22:25-28Jhn 11:50Zep 3:3

and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 Her leaders judge for bribes, ‡ Jer 6:13Isa 1:23Mic 3:5Act 8:18-20Jer 7:4Tit 1:111Pe 5:2Isa 48:2 +20

and her priests teach for a price,

and her prophets tell fortunes for money;

yet they lean on the LORD, and say,

“Isn’t the LORD among us?

No disaster will come on us.”

12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, ‡ Jer 26:18Psa 79:1Mic 4:1-2Mat 24:2Mic 1:6Psa 107:34Act 6:13-14Isa 2:2-3

and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,

and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.