Micah 3:1-4

Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

1 Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,
2 you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
3 who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”
4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.

Cross References 9

  • 1. S Jeremiah 5:5
  • 2. Psalms 53:4; S Ezekiel 22:27
  • 3. S Psalms 14:4
  • 4. S Ezekiel 34:4; Zephaniah 3:3
  • 5. S Job 24:14
  • 6. S Ezekiel 11:7; S Ezekiel 24:4-5
  • 7. S Deuteronomy 1:45; S 1 Samuel 8:18; S Isaiah 58:4; S Jeremiah 11:11; Psalms 18:41; Isaiah 1:15
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 31:17
  • 9. S Job 15:31; S Ezekiel 8:18
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