Micah 3

1And I said: Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?

2Who hate the good, and love the evil; Who rob their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones;

3Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones; Yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.

4Then shall they cry unto YHWH, But He will not answer them; Yea, He will hide His face from them at that time, According as they have wrought evil in their doings.

5Thus saith YHWH concerning the prophets that make my people to err; That cry: ‘Peace’, when their teeth have any thing to bite; And whoso putteth not into their mouths, They even prepare war against him:

6Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; And it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; And the sun shall go down upon the prophets, And the day shall be black over them.

7And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; Yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; For there shall be no answer of God.

8But I truly am full of power by the spirit of YHWH, And of justice, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel, That abhor justice, and pervert all equity;

10That build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

11The heads thereof judge for reward, And the priests thereof teach for hire, And the prophets thereof divine for money; Yet will they lean upon YHWH, and say: ‘Is not YHWH in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us’?

12Therefore 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 a forest.