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Micah 3 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:1 - I said, "Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:2 - yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:3 - You devour my people's flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot - like meat in a kettle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:4 - Someday these sinners will cry to the LORD for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5 - This is what the LORD says: "The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6 - Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:7 - The prophets will be ashamed; the omen readers will be humiliated. All of them will cover their mouths, for they will receive no divine oracles."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:8 - But I am full of the courage that the LORD's Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:9 - Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:10 - You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:11 - Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say, "The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:12 - Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!
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