Micah 3:1

And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

2You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.

2 Chronicles 19:5And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda, in every place.

Psalms 14:4Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread ?

Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

Jeremiah 5:4But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.

Jeremiah 13:15Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.

Matthew Henry on Micah 3:1

What the apostle says of another of the prophets is true of this, who was also his contemporary—"Esaias is very bold," Rom. x. 20 . So, in this chapter, Micah is very bold in reproving and threatening the great men that were the ringleaders in sin; and he gives the reason ( ver. 8 ) why he was so bold, because he had commission and instruction from God to say what he said, and was carried out in it by a higher spirit and power than his own. Magistracy and ministry are two great ordinances of God, for good to his… Read the whole commentary →

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