10 Who (A)build Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.
11 Her leaders pronounce (B)judgment for a bribe,
Her (C)priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
(D)Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”
12 Therefore, on account of you
(E)Zion will be plowed as a field,
(F)Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
And the (G)mountain of the [a]temple will become high places of a forest.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:12 Lit house

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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