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who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>who also eat the flesh of my people; and they flay their skin from off them, and break their bones: yea, they chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not answer them: yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.</p> <p class="reg"><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; that bite with their teeth and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:</p> <p class="reg"><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; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips: for there is no answer of God.</p> <p class="reg"><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, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.</p> <p class="reg"><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, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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, Is not the LORD in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.</p> <p class="reg"><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, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><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="#" 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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/micah/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>