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MIC 3:1
Micah 3:1
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And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob,
and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? |
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MIC 3:2
Micah 3:2
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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck
off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
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MIC 3:3
Micah 3:3
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Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay
their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces,
as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
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MIC 3:4
Micah 3:4
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Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will
not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have
behaved themselves ill in their doings. |
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MIC 3:5
Micah 3:5
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Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets
that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that
putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. |
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MIC 3:6
Micah 3:6
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Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall
not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and
the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. |
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MIC 3:7
Micah 3:7
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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners
confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. |
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MIC 3:8
Micah 3:8
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But truly I am full of power by the spirit of
the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression,
and to Israel his sin. |
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MIC 3:9
Micah 3:9
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Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house
of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert
all equity. |
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MIC 3:10
Micah 3:10
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They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem
with iniquity. |
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MIC 3:11
Micah 3:11
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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the
priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet
will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can
come upon us. |
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MIC 3:12
Micah 3:12
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Therefore 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 the forest. |
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