MICAH Chapter 3 (GNB)
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Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,
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yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive
and tear the flesh off their bones.
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You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop
them up like meat for the pot.
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The 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.
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My 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,
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"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."
3:7
Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all
be humiliated because God does not answer them.
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But 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.
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Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into
wrong.
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You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and
injustice.
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The 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."
3:12
And 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.
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