Micah 3 / 7
- 1Then I said, "Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice,
- 2you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
- 3who eat my people's flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?"
- 4Then 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.
- 5This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, if one feeds them, they proclaim 'peace'; if he does not, they prepare to wage war against him.
- 6Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them.
- 7The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God."
- 8But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD , and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.
- 9Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;
- 10who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
- 11Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us."
- 12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.