Micah 3 — parallel

3:1

I said,

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

3:2

You who hate the good,

You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

3:3

who also eat the flesh of my people,

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

3:4

Then they will cry to the LORD,

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 they have done.

3:5

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:

This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:

3:6

“Therefore night is over you, with no vision,

Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

3:7

The seers shall be disappointed,

Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”

3:8

But as for me, I am full of power by the LORD’s Spirit,

As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

3:9

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

3:10

who build up Zion with blood,

who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

3:11

Her leaders judge for bribes,

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

3:12

Therefore Zion for your sake will be ploughed like a field,

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.