Micah 3

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¹And I said: “Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice? ✦ ²You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones; ✦ ³Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.” ✦ ⁴Then they will cry to the Lord, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds. ✦ ⁵Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets Who make my people stray; Who chant “Peace” While they chew with their teeth, But who prepare war against him Who puts nothing into their mouths: ✦ ⁶“Thereforeyou shall have night without vision, And you shall have darkness without divination; The sun shall go down on the prophets, And the day shall be dark for them. ✦ ⁷So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God.” ✦ ⁸But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin. ✦ ⁹Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity, ✦ ¹⁰Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity: ✦ ¹¹Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No harm can come upon us.” ✦ ¹²Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ezek 22 ·6 Zeph 3 ·4 Isa 1 ·4 Mic 3 ·4 Amos 8 ·3 Jer 23 ·3 Isa 3 ·3 Jer 5 ·3

Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

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