﻿Micah.
Chapter 3.
I said, “Listen, leaders 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 off them and the flesh from their bones, 
who eat the flesh of my people, strip their skin from them, break their bones, and chop them up as for a pot, like meat in a cauldron?” 
Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds. 
This is what the LORD says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who bite with their teeth and proclaim, “Peace,” but consecrate war against the one who puts nothing in their mouths: 
“Therefore you will have night without vision, darkness without divination. The sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them. 
The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. All of them will cover their upper lips, for there is no answer from God.” 
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. 
Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and make everything straight crooked, 
building Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice. 
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD in our midst? No disaster will come upon us.” 
Therefore because of you Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become wooded heights. 
