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Micah 3:1

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?

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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

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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.

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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.

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They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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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.

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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.

Micah 3:2

3:2 pluck off their skin. In Micah 3:1-3, the prophet accuses Israel’s leaders of what amounts to spiritual cannibalism, defrauding them of their possessions and livelihood.

Micah 3:8

3:8 spirit of the LORD. After condemning the false prophets, whose character had been disclosed by their receiving “no answer of God” (Micah 3:7; see Deuteronomy 18:20-22), Micah asserts his own power to reveal God’s Word through the Holy Spirit of God. His own prophecies would very soon be fulfilled.

Micah 3:12

3:12 Jerusalem shall become heaps. These terrible prophesies against Jerusalem, like those against Samaria (Micah 1:6) would eventually be fulfilled. It would not be fulfilled by the Assyrians, however, because of the prayer of Hezekiah (II Chronicles 32:20-22), but much later by the Babylonians (II Chronicles 36:17-19; II Kings 25:8-12).

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