GodsWord - Micah - 3

3:1  Then I said: Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel. You should know justice.

3:2  You hate good and love evil. You strip the skin off my people and the flesh off their bones.

3:3  You eat my people's flesh. You strip off their skin. You break their bones to pieces. You chop them up like meat for a pot, like stew meat for a kettle.

3:4  Then you will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer you. He will hide his face from you at that time because you have done evil things.

3:5  This is what the LORD says about the prophets who mislead my people: When they have something to eat, they say, "All is well!" But they declare a holy war against those who don't feed them.

3:6  That is why you will have nights without visions. You will have darkness without revelations. The sun will set on the prophets, and the day will turn dark for them.

3:7  Seers will be put to shame. Those who practice witchcraft will be disgraced. All of them will cover their faces, because God won't answer them.

3:8  But I am filled with the power of the LORD's Spirit, with justice, and with strength. So I will tell the descendants of Jacob about their crimes and the nation of Israel about its sins.

3:9  Listen to this, you leaders of the descendants of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel. You despise justice and pervert everything that is right.

3:10  You build Zion on bloodshed and Jerusalem on wickedness.

3:11  Your leaders exchange justice for bribes. Your priests teach for a price. Your prophets tell the future for money. But they rely on the LORD when they say, "After all, the LORD is with us. Nothing bad will happen to us."

3:12  Because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble, and the temple mountain will become a worship site covered with trees.