Micah 3:3-5

Good News Translation

³ You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot. 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.

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,