Micah, Chapter 3

1. And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice?    2. Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones;    3. Who also eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin off from them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as if for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.    4. Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have behaved themselves wrongfully in their doings.    5. Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he who does not put something into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.    6. Therefore there shall be night for you, so that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark for you, so that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.    7. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners brought into perplexity: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.    8. But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.    9. Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all uprightness.    10. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.    11. Their heads judge for reward, and their priests teach for wages, and their prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.    12. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.