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Mic 3:1 And I said, Hear, I
pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it
not for you to know judgment?
Mic 3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin
from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Mic 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off
them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
and as flesh within the caldron.
Mic 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he
will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved
themselves ill in their doings.
Mic 3:5 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people
err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not
into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Mic 3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a
vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the
sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Mic 3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea,
they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Mic 3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to
Israel his sin.
Mic 3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes
of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
Mic 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Mic 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach
for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean
upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon
us.
Mic 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high
places of the forest. |