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Micah 3:9-12

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

9. Hear 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. 10. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11. 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 among us? none evil can come upon us. 12. 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 the forest.

Micah 3:9-12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Micah 3:9

Theological / Devotional

Ye heads. Verses 9-12 briefly review the iniquity of the rulers, priests, and prophets and announce the coming destruction of Zion and its Temple. The prophet fearlessly condemns those who ought to be leaders in righteousness, for their rejection of “judgment” and their perversion of “all equity.” Those who should have been examples of purity, and the protectors and guardians of justice and fairness, were making a mockery of the laws of God and man.

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