The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Micah 03
1 I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob,
and rulers of the house of Israel:
Isn’t it for you to know justice?
2 You who hate the good, and love the evil;
who tear off their skin, and their flesh
from off their bones;
3 who also eat the flesh of my people,
and peel their skin from off them,
and break their bones, and chop them
in pieces, as for the pot,
and as meat within the cauldron.
4 Then they will cry to Yahweh,
but he will not answer them.
Yes, he will hide his face from them at that
time, because they made their deeds evil.
5 Yahweh says concerning the prophets
who lead my people astray—for those who
feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!”
and whoever doesn’t provide for their
mouths, they prepare war against him:
6 “Therefore night is over you, with no
vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not
divine; and the sun will go down on the
prophets, and the day will be black over them.
7 The seers shall be disappointed,
and the diviners confounded.
Yes, they shall all cover their lips,
for there is no answer from God.Ӡ
8 But as for me, I am full of power by
Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might,
to declare to Jacob his disobedience,
and to Israel his sin.
9 Please listen to 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 blood,
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 Her leaders judge for bribes,
and her priests teach for a price,
and her prophets of it tell fortunes for
money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,
“Isn’t Yahweh among us?
No disaster will come on us.”
12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be
plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of
rubble, and the mountain of the temple like
the high places of a forest.