Micah 3:11
Her heads judge for bribes, and her priests teach for reward, and her prophets divine for money: and yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? evil cannot come over us.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
10They build up Zion with blood-guiltiness, and Jerusalem with wrong.
Cross References
Numbers 22:7And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Bil'am, and spoke unto him the words of Balak.
1 Samuel 8:3But his sons walked not in his ways, and they inclined after their own advantage, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
Proverbs 17:23A wicked man taketh a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of justice.
Isaiah 48:2For of the holy city they call themselves, and upon the God of Israel they stay themselves,—The Lord of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah 5:12They have denied the Lord, and said, “He existeth not; nor will evil come over us; and the sword and famine shall we not see.
Jeremiah 7:4[But] do not rely on the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, [as] they [say].
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 →