Micah

Micah 3 ©

1 Micah reproveth the cruelty of the princes, 5 and the falsehood of the prophets. 8 His zeal in showing the sins of the princes, priests, and prophets, and their ill grounded security.

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AND I said, aHear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; bIs it not for you to know judgment?

a v.9-11. Ho. 5.1. Je. 13.15,18; 22.2,29.
b Je. 5.5. 2Ch. 19.10. De. 1.13,15.
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cWho hate the good, and love the evil; who dpluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

c Am. 5.10. Ps. 139.20,21; 15.4. Ro. 12.9.
d Am. 5.11,12. Zep. 3.3. Ps. 58.2. Hab. 1.2-4. Eze. 22.7,12,13,27. Is. 1.23. Ps. 14.4. Eze. 11.7; 34.3.
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Who also eat the flesh of my people, and *flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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eThen shall they fcry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: ghe will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

e ch.1.6,9; 2.3,10.
f Pr. 1.28; 28.9. Is. 1.15. Jn. 9.31. Eze. 8.18. Zec. 7.13. Ps. 18.41.
g Is. 59.1-15. De. 31.16,17; 32.15-27. Ho. 9.12. Is. 3.11. Ro. 2.8,9.
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¶Thus saith the LORD concerning hthe prophets that make my people err, that ibite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

h Is. 9.16. Je. 14.14; 29.8. Eze. 22.25. Mal. 2.8. Mat. 15.14. Je. 23.13,32.
i Eze. 13.10. ch.2.11. Ro. 16.18. Is. 56.10,11. Eze. 13.18,19,22. v.11. Ro. 2.21. Mat. 7.15.
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Therefore jnight shall be unto you, 1that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, 2that ye shall not divine; and kthe sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

j Eze. 13.9,23. Zec. 13.4. Mal. 2.9. Je. 23.12; 14.15. Is. 8.20,22. Ps. 74.9.
k Am. 8.9.
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Then lshall the seers be ashamed, and the *diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their 3lips; for there is mno answer of God.

l Zec. 13.4. Mal. 2.9. Le. 13.45. Eze. 24.17,22.
m Ps. 74.9. Am. 8.11. 1Sa. 28.6; 3.1.
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¶But truly nI am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, oto declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

n Mar. 3.17. Job 32.18. Is. 50.4; 11.2. Mat. 7.29. 1Co. 2.1,4,12.
o Je. 1.18. Is. 58.1. Eze. 16.2; 20.4; 22.2.
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pHear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

p v.1. Ps. 58.1,2. Ho. 5.1. Eze. 2.7; 3.17.
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They build up Zion with 4blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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qThe heads thereof judge for reward, and rthe priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof sdivine for money: yet twill they lean upon the LORD, 5and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

q ch.7.3. Is. 1.23. Ho. 4.18. Eze. 22.12-27. Zep. 3.3.
r Mal. 1.10. 1Pe. 5.2. Jude 11. Tit. 1.11. Ro. 16.18. De. 33.10.
s v.5. Je. 5.31; 6.13. Zep. 3.4. Zec. 13.2.
t Je. 7.4,8-11. Mat. 3.9. Is. 48.2. Ro. 2.17.
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Therefore ushall 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 the forest.

u Je. 26.18. ch.1.6. Ps. 79.1; 107.34. Mat. 24.2.