Micah 3:4

Then they cry to YHWH, || And He does not answer them, || And hides His face from them at that time, || As they have made evil their doings.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

In Context

3And who have eaten the flesh of My people, || And their skin from off them have stripped, || And their bones they have broken, || And they have spread [them] out as in a pot, || And as flesh in the midst of a cauldron.”

5Thus said YHWH concerning the prophets || Who are causing My people to err, || Who are biting with their teeth, || And have cried “Peace,” || And he who does not give to their mouth, || They have sanctified against him war:

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:17and My anger has burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden My face from them, and it has been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it, and it has said in that day, [Is] it not because my God is not in my midst that these evils have found me?

1 Samuel 8:18And you have cried out in that day because of the king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and YHWH does not answer you in that day.”

Psalms 18:41They cry, and there is no savior, || On YHWH, and He does not answer them.

Proverbs 28:9Whoever is turning his ear from hearing the Law, || Even his prayer [is] an abomination.

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked—evil, || Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

Isaiah 59:3For your hands have been defiled with blood, || And your fingers with iniquity, || Your lips have spoken falsehood, || Your tongue mutters perverseness.

Matthew Henry on Micah 3:2-8

The Crimes of the Princes and Prophets. ( b. c. 726.) 1 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? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then shall they cry unto the Lord , but he… Read the whole commentary →

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