Micah 3

1and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, I said, 2and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; You who hate the good, 3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. 4but he will not answer them. because they made their deeds evil.” Then they will cry to Yahweh, Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, 5Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: 6and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them. “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, 7and the diviners confounded. * The seers shall be disappointed, Yes, they shall all cover their lips; 8and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin. But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, 9and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, 10and Jerusalem with iniquity. They build up Zion with blood, 11and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.” Her leaders judge for bribes, yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, 12and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest. Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,