Micah

3 Then said I, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel,—Is it not yours to know justice?

2 Ye haters of right and lovers of wrong,—Tearing away their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones;

3 Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, And their skin from off them have stript And their bones have they broken in pieces,—And will spread them out as flesh with a fork, And as flesh in the midst of a pot.

4 Then shall they make outcry unto Yahweh, But he will not answer them,—That he may hide his face from them at that time, Even as they have made wicked their doings.

5 Thus saith Yahweh, Concerning the prophets who are leading astray my people,—Who bite with their teeth and then cry—Prosper! And whoso holdeth not to their mouth they hallow against him a war!

6 Therefore shall it be Night to you for lack of vision, And darkness to you for lack of divination,—And the sun shall go in over the prophets, And the day shall be overcast because of them;

7 And the men of vision shall turn pale And the diviners shall blush, And shall put a covering upon their lip all of them,—Because there is no answer of God.

8 But in very deed I am full of vigour With the spirit of Yahweh, And of justice and of valour,—To declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel, his sin.

9 Hear this, I pray you, Ye heads of the house of Jacob, and Ye judges of the house of Israel,—Who abhor justice, And all right do pervert:

10 Building Zion with deeds of blood,—And Jerusalem with perversity.

11 Her heads for a bribe pronounce sentence And her priests for a price give direction, And her prophets for silver divine,—Yet on Yahweh they lean saying, Is not Yahweh in our midst? There shall not come upon us calamity.

12 Wherefore for your sake Zion as a field shall be ploughed, And Jerusalem unto heaps of ruins shall be turned,—And the mountain of the house shall [be] like mounds in a jungle.