Mic 3 | EngLXX | STEP | And he shall say, Hear now these words, you⌃ heads of the house of Jacob, and you⌃ remnantof the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?

Micah 3

1 And he shall say, Hear now these words, you⌃ heads of the house of Jacob, and you⌃ remnantof the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment? 2 who hate good, and seek evil;who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones: 3 even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broketheir bones, and dividedthem as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot, 4 thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not hearken to them; and he shall turn awayhis face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves. 5 Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with theirteeth, and proclaim peace to them; andwhen nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them: 6 therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darknessinstead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them. 7 And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed toscorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them. 8 Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power,to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins. 9 Hear now these words, you⌃ chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the houseof Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness; 10 who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire,and her prophets have divined for silver: andyet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come uponus. 12 Therefore on your account Sion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be asa storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.