Micah 3
:1
3:1
And I said,
Hear now, you heads of Jacob
And you rulers of the house of Israel:
Is it not for you
To know justice?
Micah 3
:2
3:2
You who hate good
And love evil,
You who tear away their skin from off them
And their flesh from off their bones,
Micah 3
:3
3:3
And who devour the flesh of My people
And strip off their skin from off them
And break their bones in pieces
And chop them as for the pot
And like meat in a cauldron.
Micah 3
:4
3:4
Then they will cry out to Jehovah,
But He will not answer them;
Indeed He will
ahide His face from them at that time,
Just as they were evil in their doings.
Micah 3
:5
3:5
Thus says Jehovah concerning the
aprophets Who cause My people to err,
Who, when they have
something to bite with their teeth,
Cry, Peace,
But if there is one who does not give
something for their mouths,
They prepare for war against him.
Micah 3
:6
3:6
Therefore there will be night to you, without vision,
And darkness to you, without divination.
And the sun will go down on the prophets,
And the day will be black over them.
Micah 3
:7
3:7
And the seers will be put to shame,
And the diviners will be ashamed;
And they will all cover
their mouths,
For there will be
ano answer from God.
Micah 3
:8
3:8
But as for me, I am
afull Of power, with the Spirit of Jehovah, and of justice and might,
To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
Micah 3
:9
3:9
Hear now this, you heads of the house of Jacob
And you rulers of the house of Israel:
You who abhor justice
And pervert all uprightness,
Micah 3
:10
3:10
aWho build Zion by bloodshed
And Jerusalem by iniquity.
Micah 3
:11
3:11
Her leaders judge for a bribe,
And her priests teach for hire,
And her prophets divine for money;
But they lean on Jehovah, saying,
Is not Jehovah in our midst?
Evil will not come upon us.
Micah 3
:12
3:12
Therefore on account of you
aZion will be plowed as a field,
And Jerusalem
will become a heap of ruins,
And the
bmountain of the house will become the high places of a forest.
