33_MIC_03_01 And I said, hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, And ye princes of the house of Israel; [ Is it] not for you to know judgment?
33_MIC_03_02 who hate the good, And love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones;
33_MIC_03_03 who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them; And they break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.
33_MIC_03_04 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
33_MIC_03_05 thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, And cry, peace; And he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
33_MIC_03_06 therefore night [ shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have A vision; And it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; And the sun shall go down over the prophets, And the day shall be dark over them.
33_MIC_03_07 Then shall the seers be ashamed, And the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [ there Is] no answer of God.
33_MIC_03_08 but truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, And of judgment, And of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.
33_MIC_03_09 hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, And princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, And pervert all equity.
33_MIC_03_10 they build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.
33_MIC_03_11 the heads thereof judge for reward, And the priests thereof teach for hire, And the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, And say, [ Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
33_MIC_03_12 therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [ as] A field, And Jerusalem shall become heaps, And the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.