Rulers and False Prophets Judged
Micah 3, verse 1. He will say, “Hear these things, O heads of the house of Jacob, and you remnant of Israel. Is it not for you to know judgment? Micah 3, verse 2. you who hate good and love evil; you who seize their skins in order flay them and cut their flesh off their bones? Micah 3, verse 3. who devoured the flesh of my people by removing their skin, breaking their bones, and dividing them as merely flesh for the cauldron and as meat for the pot?” Micah 3, verse 4. Thus they will cry out to the Lord, but He will not hear them. Instead, He will turn His face from them at that time because they have done wickedly in their deeds against themselves. Micah 3, verse 5. Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who were proclaiming peace upon them while they themselves ate, but who, when nothing was put in their mouths, stirred up war against them: Micah 3, verse 6. “Therefore to you there will be darkness instead of vision, and to you there will be darkness instead of prophecy. For the sun will set on the prophets, and the day shall become very dark on them. Micah 3, verse 7. And the seers of dreams will be put to shame, and the prophets will be laughed to scorn. And all the people will speak evil of them, because there will be no one heeding them.” Micah 3, verse 8. Surely I shall strengthen myself in the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to proclaim to Jacob his ungodliness and to Israel his sins. Micah 3, verse 9. Indeed, hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and the remnant of the house of Israel, you who despise judgment and are perverting everything that is upright, Micah 3, verse 10. who build up Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice. Micah 3, verse 11. Her leaders make decisions founded on a bribe, and her priests give answers for pay, and her prophets prophesy for money. And they lean on the Lord, saying, “Is not the Lord with us? No harm can come upon us.” Micah 3, verse 12. Therefore on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall be as a shed in the field, and the mountain of the house as a grove of trees.