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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10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 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.

12 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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