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.

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