Micah 3
1 I said, “Please listen, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Isn’t it your duty to know what is just?
2 You hate what is good and love what is evil. You strip the skin from them and the flesh from their bones.
3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip their skin from them, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil things they have done.”
5 This is what the LORD says about the prophets who lead my people astray: “When they have something to chew, they proclaim peace, but against anyone who puts nothing in their mouths, they declare war.
6 So night will come upon you, with no vision, and darkness, with no divination. The sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.
7 The seers will be put to shame, and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their upper lips, for there will be no answer from God.”
8 But I am filled with strength, with the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare Jacob’s rebellion and Israel’s sin.
9 Please listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who detest justice and twist everything that is right!
10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice.
11 Her leaders give judgments for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets divine for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, “Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.”
12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the temple mount a wooded hill.
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