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href="/micah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You who are hating good, and loving evil, "" Taking violently their skin from off them, "" And their flesh from off their bones,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And who have eaten the flesh of My people, "" And their skin from off them have stripped, "" And their bones they have broken, "" And they have spread [them] out as in a pot, "" And as flesh in the midst of a cauldron.”<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then they cry to YHWH, "" And He does not answer them, "" And hides His face from them at that time, "" As they have made evil their doings.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus said YHWH concerning the prophets "" Who are causing My people to err, "" Who are biting with their teeth, "" And have cried “Peace,” "" And he who does not give to their mouth, "" They have sanctified against him war:<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Therefore you have a night without vision, "" And you have darkness without divination, "" And the sun has gone in on the prophets, "" And the day has been black over them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the seers have been ashamed, "" And the diviners have been confounded, "" And all of them have covered their lip, "" For there is no answer, O God.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of YHWH, "" And of judgment, and of might, "" To declare to Jacob his transgression, "" And to Israel his sin.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now hear this, O heads of the house of Jacob, "" And you judges of the house of Israel, "" Who are making judgment abominable, "" And pervert all uprightness.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Building up Zion 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>Her heads judge for a bribe, "" And her priests teach for hire, "" And her prophets divine for silver, "" And on YHWH they lean, saying, "" “Is not YHWH in our midst? Evil does not come in on us.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, for your sake, Zion is plowed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, "" And the mountain of the house [is] for high places of a forest!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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