Micah 3

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

²you who hate the good and love the evil , who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones ,

³who eat the flesh of my people , and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot , like flesh in a cauldron .

⁴Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time , because they have made their deeds evil .

⁵Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray , who cry Peace when they have something to eat , but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths .

⁶Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision , and darkness to you, without divination . The sun shall go down on the prophets , and the day shall be black over them;

⁷the seers shall be disgraced , and the diviners put to shame ; they shall all cover their lips , for there is no answer from God .

⁸But as for me , I am filled with power , with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might , to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin .

⁹Hear this , you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel , who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight ,

¹⁰who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity .

¹¹Its heads give judgment for a bribe ; its priests teach for a price ; its prophets practice divination for money ; yet they lean on the Lord and say , Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.

¹²Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field ; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins , and the mountain of the house a wooded height .