Micah 3:5-12

5 This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim ‘peace’ if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them.
6 Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them.
7 The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God.”
8 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, to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;
10 who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the LORD’s support and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.

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Cross References 23

  • 1. S Isaiah 3:12; S Isaiah 9:16; S Isaiah 53:6
  • 2. S Jeremiah 4:10
  • 3. Isaiah 8:19-22; S Ezekiel 12:24
  • 4. Isaiah 29:10
  • 5. S Ezekiel 7:26; S Amos 8:11
  • 6. S Jeremiah 6:15; Micah 7:16
  • 7. S Isaiah 44:25
  • 8. S Esther 6:12
  • 9. S Leviticus 13:45
  • 10. S Ezekiel 20:3
  • 11. S Isaiah 57:12; Isaiah 61:2; Isaiah 58:1
  • 12. Psalms 58:1-2; S Isaiah 1:23
  • 13. S Jeremiah 22:13
  • 14. Isaiah 59:7; Micah 7:2; Nahum 3:1; Habakkuk 2:12
  • 15. Jeremiah 22:17; S Ezekiel 22:27
  • 16. S Exodus 23:8; S Leviticus 19:15; Malachi 2:9
  • 17. S Ezekiel 13:19
  • 18. Isaiah 1:23; S Isaiah 56:11; Jeremiah 6:13; S Lamentations 4:13; S Hosea 4:8,18
  • 19. S Isaiah 10:20
  • 20. Jeremiah 7:4; S Ezekiel 34:2
  • 21. S 2 Kings 25:9; S Isaiah 6:11; Jeremiah 26:18
  • 22. S Jeremiah 52:13
  • 23. S Leviticus 26:31; S Jeremiah 17:3; S Jeremiah 22:6; S Lamentations 5:18; S Ezekiel 5:14
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