Micah Chapter 3

3:1 Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,
3:2 yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
3:3 You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.
3:4 The time is coming when you will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer you. He will not listen to your prayers, for you have done evil.
3:5 My people are deceived by prophets who promise peace to those who pay them, but threaten war for those who don't. To these prophets the LORD says,
3:6 "Prophets, your day is almost over; the sun is going down on you. Because you mislead my people, you will have no more prophetic visions, and you will not be able to predict anything."
3:7 Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them.
3:8 But as for me, the LORD fills me with his spirit and power, and gives me a sense of justice and the courage to tell the people of Israel what their sins are.
3:9 Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.
3:10 You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and injustice.
3:11 The city's rulers govern for bribes, the priests interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give their revelations for money--and they all claim that the LORD is with them. "No harm will come to us," they say. "The LORD is with us."
3:12 And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest. PSALM