Micah 第3章
Rulers and Prophets Denounced
1And I said:
3:1 See ch. 1:2Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
3:1 Jer. 5:5; [Ezek. 22:6, 27]Is it not for you to know justice?—
3:2 [Ezek. 34:3]who tear the skin from off my people3:2 Hebrew from off them
and their flesh from off their bones,
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.
but he will not answer them;
3:4 Isa. 1:15; See Deut. 31:17he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
who lead my people astray,
3:5 [Jer. 6:14]who cry “Peace”
when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
who puts nothing into their mouths.
6Therefore 3:6 Ezek. 12:24; 13:23it shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination.
3:6 See Amos 8:9The sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them;
73:7 Zech. 13:4; [Jer. 37:19] the seers shall be disgraced,
and the diviners put to shame;
3:7 [Lev. 13:45] they shall all cover their lips,
for 3:7 See Amos 8:11there is no answer from God.
with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob 3:8 ch. 1:5; Isa. 58:1; [Ezek. 23:36]his transgression
and to Israel his sin.
and rulers of the house of Israel,
3:9 [ver. 2]who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
103:10 Jer. 22:13; Ezek. 22:27; Hab. 2:12who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
3:11 See Jer. 6:13its priests teach for a price;
3:11 [ver. 5; Ezek. 22:25] its prophets practice divination for money;
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
3:11 [Jer. 23:17; Amos 9:10]No disaster shall come upon us.”
12Therefore because of you
3:12 Cited Jer. 26:18Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem 3:12 [ch. 1:6] shall become a heap of ruins,
and 3:12 ch. 4:2the mountain of the house 3:12 [Luke 13:35]a wooded height.
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