Shared Word Translation
Micah 3
Judgment Against Israel's Leaders
And I said,
“Hear now, heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel:
Is it not for you to know justice?
You who hate good
and love evil,
who tear the skin from off my people
and their flesh from off their bones,
who eat the flesh of my people,
strip their skin from them,
break their bones,
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.”
Then they will cry out to the LORD,
but he will not answer them.
He will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
Judgment Against False Prophets
Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets
who lead my people astray,
who cry, “Peace,”
when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
who puts nothing into their mouths:
Therefore it shall be night to you,
without vision,
and darkness to you,
without divination.
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be dark over them.
The seers shall be put to shame,
and the diviners disgraced.
They shall all cover their lips,
for there is no answer from God.
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
and to Israel his sin.
Jerusalem's Coming Destruction
Hear this,
you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Her heads give judgment for a bribe,
her priests teach for a price,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean upon the LORD and say,
“Is not the LORD among us?
No disaster shall come upon us.”
Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed as a field.
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house
a wooded height.