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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Micah 3 NKJV KJV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/micah/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../../topmenuchap/micah/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/micah/">Micah</a> > Micah 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../micah/2.shtml" title="Micah 2">◄</a> Micah 3 <a href="../micah/4.shtml" title="Micah 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">NKJV Parallel KJV <a href="../../bsb/micah/3.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/micah/3.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/micah/3.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/micah/3.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/micah/3.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/micah/3.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/micah/3.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/micah/3.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/micah/3.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/micah/3.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/micah/3.shtml">HEB]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New King James Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">King James Bible</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And I said: “Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: <i>Is it</i> not for you to know justice?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; <i>Is it</i> not for you to know judgment?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop <i>them</i> in pieces Like <i>meat</i> for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then 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.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Thus 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:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Therefore you 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.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore night <i>shall be</i> unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For <i>there is</i> no answer from God.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for <i>there is</i> no answer of God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But 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.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Her 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.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, <i>Is</i> not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed <i>like</i> a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed <i>as</i> a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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