Micah 3
1 And he shall say, Hear now these
words, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel;
is it not for you to know judgment? 2 who hate good, and seek evil;
who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off
their bones: 3 even as they devoured
the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their
bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and
as meat for the pot, 4 thus they shall
cry to the Lord, but he shall not hearken to them; and he shall turn away his
face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their
practices against themselves.
5 Thus saith the Lord concerning the
prophets that lead my people astray, that bite with their teeth, and proclaim
peace to them; and when nothing was put into their
mouth, they raised up war against them:
6 therefore there shall be night to
you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of
prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be
dark upon them. 7 And the seers of
night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn:
and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to
hearken to them. 8 Surely I will
strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power,
to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.
9 Hear now these words, ye chiefs of
the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment,
and pervert all righteousness; 10 who
build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof have judged for
gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have
divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the
Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.
12 Therefore on your account Sion
shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of
fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.