Micah 3 (NET)

Micah 3:1¹I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 5:1Isa 1:10Jer 5:4-5Ps 82:1-51 Cor 6:52 Chr 19:5-10Amos 4:1Deut 1:13-17Deut 16:18Jer 22:2-3

Micah 3:2²yet you hate what is good and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 22:27Prov 28:4Ps 53:41 Kgs 21:201 Kgs 22:6-82 Chr 19:2Rom 12:92 Tim 3:3Acts 7:51-52Rom 1:32

Micah 3:3³You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot — like meat in a kettle.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 14:4Ezek 11:3Ezek 11:6-7Zeph 3:3

Micah 3:4⁴Someday these sinful leaders will cry to the Lord for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:15Prov 1:28Ezek 8:18Ps 18:41Deut 31:17-18Deut 32:19-20Matt 7:22Isa 3:11Isa 59:1-15Jas 2:13

Micah 3:5⁵This is what the Lord has said about the prophets who mislead my people, “If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 14:14-15Jer 6:14Ezek 13:10-16Ezek 22:25-29Isa 9:15-16Jer 23:32Jer 23:9-17Jer 28:15-17Mal 2:8Matt 15:14

Micah 3:6⁶Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 8:20-22Amos 8:9-10Isa 29:10Isa 59:10Ezek 13:22-23Jer 13:16Jer 15:9Ps 74:9Zech 13:2-4

Micah 3:7⁷The prophets will be ashamed; the omen readers will be humiliated. All of them will cover their mouths, for they will receive no divine oracles.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 44:25Zech 13:41 Sam 28:6Amos 8:11Ezek 24:17Isa 47:12-14Lev 13:451 Sam 14:371 Sam 28:151 Sam 9:9

Micah 3:8⁸But I am full of the courage that the Lord ’s Spirit gives and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion and Israel with its sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 58:11 Cor 2:12-131 Cor 2:4Isa 11:2-3Acts 18:9-11Acts 4:8-12Acts 7:54-57Ezek 16:2Ezek 43:10Jer 15:19-21

Micah 3:9⁹Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:23Ps 58:1-2Prov 17:15Deut 27:19Exod 3:16Hos 5:1Jer 5:28Lev 26:15Mic 3:1

Micah 3:10¹⁰You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:9-12Jer 22:13-17Matt 27:25Ezek 22:25-28John 11:50Zeph 3:3

Micah 3:11¹¹Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the Lord and say, “The Lord is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:13Isa 1:23Mic 3:5Acts 8:18-20Jer 7:4Titus 1:111 Pet 5:2Isa 48:2Mic 7:31 Sam 12:3-4

Micah 3:12¹²Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 26:18Ps 79:1Mic 4:1-2Matt 24:2Mic 1:6Ps 107:34Acts 6:13-14Isa 2:2-3