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Micah 3:10-12
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Micah 3:10-12
Easy-to-Read Version
10 You build Zion by murdering people.[a]
You build Jerusalem by cheating people!
11 The judges in Jerusalem accept bribes
to help them decide who wins in court.
The priests in Jerusalem must be paid
before they will teach the people.
People must pay the prophets
before they will look into the future.
Then those leaders expect the Lord to help them.
They say, “The Lord lives here with us,
so nothing bad will happen to us.”
12 Leaders, because of you, Zion will be destroyed.
It will become a plowed field.
Jerusalem will become a pile of rocks.
Temple Mount will be an empty hill[b] overgrown with bushes.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:10 murdering people Literally, “bloodshed.”
- Micah 3:12 empty hill Or “high place,” a term usually used for local shrines (places for worship) where people often worshiped idols.
Micah 3:10-12
New International Version
Micah 3:10-12
New International Version
10 who build(A) Zion with bloodshed,(B)
and Jerusalem with wickedness.(C)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(D)
her priests teach for a price,(E)
and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(F)
Yet they look(G) for the Lord’s support and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No disaster will come upon us.”(H)
12 Therefore because of you,
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(I)
the temple(J) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.(K)
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