10 Who (A)build Zion with bloodshed,
And Jerusalem with malice.
11 Her leaders pronounce (B)judgment for a bribe,
Her (C)priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
(D)Is the Lord not in our midst?
Catastrophe will not come upon us.”
12 Therefore on account of you,
(E)Zion will be plowed like 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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