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Micah 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 3
Wicked Rulers and Prophets
Wicked Rulers and Prophets
1 And I said:
​
​​“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
​​And you rulers of the house of Israel:
​​Is it not for you to know justice?
2 ​​You who hate good and love evil;
​​Who strip the skin from My people,[fn]
​​And the flesh from their bones;
3 ​​Who also eat the flesh of My people,
​​Flay their skin from them,
​​Break their bones,
​​And chop them in pieces
​​Like meat for the pot,
​​Like flesh in the caldron.”
​
4 ​​Then they will cry to the LORD,
​​But He will not hear them;
​​He will even hide His face from them at that time,
​​Because they have been evil in their deeds.
​
5 ​​Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets
​​Who make my people stray;
​​Who chant “Peace”
​​While they chew with their teeth,
​​But who prepare war against him
​​Who puts nothing into their mouths:
6 ​​“Therefore you shall have night without vision,
​​And you shall have darkness without divination;
​​The sun shall go down on the prophets,
​​And the day shall be dark for them.
7 ​​So the seers shall be ashamed,
​​And the diviners abashed;
​​Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
​​For there is no answer from God.”
​
8 ​​But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD,
​​And of justice and might,
​​To declare to Jacob his transgression
​​And to Israel his sin.
9 ​​Now hear this,
​​You heads of the house of Jacob
​​And rulers of the house of Israel,
​​Who abhor justice
​​And pervert all equity,
10 ​​Who build up Zion with bloodshed
​​And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 ​​Her heads judge for a bribe,
​​Her priests teach for pay,
​​And her prophets divine for money.
​​Yet they lean on the LORD, and say,
​​“Is not the LORD among us?
​​No harm can come upon us.”
12 ​​Therefore because of you
​​Zion shall be plowed like a field,
​​Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
​​And the mountain of the temple[fn]
​​Like the bare hills of the forest.
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