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Micah 3 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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is it not for you to know judgment?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><i>who</i> hate good, and seek evil; <i>who</i> tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided <i>them</i> as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not hearken to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and <i>when</i> nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Hear now these words, ye chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and <i>yet</i> they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore on your account Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>