Micah 3:11
Your leaders judge for a bribe, and your priests teach for a price, and your prophets only prophesy for pay. Yet they all lean on the Lord saying, “Isn't the Lord here with us? Nothing bad can happen to us!”
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In Context
10You are building Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil.
Cross References
Numbers 22:7The Moabite and Midianite leaders departed, taking payment for the fortune-telling with them. When they arrived they gave Balaam the message from Balak.
1 Samuel 8:3However, his sons did not follow his ways. They were corrupt, making money by accepting bribes and perverting justice.
Proverbs 17:23The wicked take hidden bribes to pervert the course of justice.
Isaiah 48:2You say you're from the “Holy City,” and claim you're trusting in the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
Jeremiah 5:12They have lied about the Lord, saying, “He won't do anything. Nothing bad will happen to us. We won't have war or famine.
Jeremiah 7:4Don't believe in those who try and deceive you by repeating, “The Temple of the Lord is here, the Temple of the Lord is here, the Temple of the Lord is here.”
Matthew Henry on Micah 3:9-12
The Crimes of the Princes and Prophets. ( b. c. 726.) 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord , and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 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… Read the whole commentary →