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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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" /><title>Micah 3 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/micah/3.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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" 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And their flesh from off their bones;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Who also eat the flesh of my people,</div><div class="po2">And flay their skin from off them,</div><div class="po2">And break their bones;</div><div class="po2">Yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot,</div><div class="po2">And as flesh within the caldron.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then shall they cry unto the LORD,</div><div class="po2">But He will not answer them;</div><div class="po2">Yea, He will hide His face from them at that time,</div><div class="po2">According as they have wrought evil in their doings.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to err;</div><div class="po2">That cry: ‘Peace’, when their teeth have any thing to bite;</div><div class="po2">And whoso putteth not into their mouths,</div><div class="po2">They even prepare war against him:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision;</div><div class="po2">And it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine;</div><div class="po2">And the sun shall go down upon the prophets,</div><div class="po2">And the day shall be black over them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded;</div><div class="po2">Yea, they shall all cover their upper lips;</div><div class="po2">For there shall be no answer of God.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But I truly am full of power by the spirit of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And of justice, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression,</div><div class="po2">And to Israel his sin.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob,</div><div class="po2">And rulers of the house of Israel,</div><div class="po2">That abhor justice, and pervert all equity;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>That build up Zion with blood,</div><div class="po2">And Jerusalem with iniquity.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The heads thereof judge for reward,</div><div class="po2">And the priests thereof teach for hire,</div><div class="po2">And the prophets thereof divine for money;</div><div class="po2">Yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say:</div><div class="po2">‘Is not the LORD in the midst of us?</div><div class="po2">No evil shall come upon us’?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field,</div><div class="po2">And Jerusalem shall become heaps,</div><div class="po2">And the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../micah/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Micah 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Micah 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../micah/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Micah 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Micah 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" 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