Micah 3
New International Version - Micah 3 << | >> 1234567 3:1 Then I said, 'Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice, 3:2 you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones; 3:3 who 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?' 3:4 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 This 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. 3:6 Therefore 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. 3:7 The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God.' 3:8 But 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. 3:9 Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right; 3:10 who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness. 3:11 Her 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.' 3:12 Therefore 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.