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Micah 3

¹Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,

²yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.

³You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.

⁴The time is coming when you will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer you. He will not listen to your prayers, for you have done evil.

⁵My people are deceived by prophets who promise peace to those who pay them, but threaten war for those who don't. To these prophets the LORD says,

⁶"Prophets, your day is almost over; the sun is going down on you. Because you mislead my people, you will have no more prophetic visions, and you will not be able to predict anything."

⁷Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them.

⁸But as for me, the LORD fills me with his spirit and power, and gives me a sense of justice and the courage to tell the people of Israel what their sins are.

⁹Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.

¹⁰You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and injustice.

¹¹The city's rulers govern for bribes, the priests interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give their revelations for money---and they all claim that the LORD is with them. "No harm will come to us,"they say. "The LORD is with us."

¹²And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.