Micah 3:4

Then, when you have troubles, you plead to Yahweh to help you, but he will not answer you. At that time, he will turn away from you because of the evil things that you have done.”

Translation for Translators

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

3It is as though you chop them into pieces like [SIM] meat to be cooked in a pot.

5This is what Yahweh says about your false prophets who are deceiving the people: “If someone gives them food, those prophets say that things will go well for him. But they declare war against anyone who does not give them food.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:17When that happens, I will become very angry with them. I will abandon them [DOU] and I will no longer help them [IDM], and I will destroy them {they will be destroyed}. Many terrible things will happen to them, with the result that they will say, ‘ We are certain that [RHQ] these things are happening to us because our God is no longer with us.’

1 Samuel 8:18When that time comes, you will complain loudly to the king, the king that you yourselves have chosen, but Yahweh will not ◄pay attention to/help► you.”

Psalms 18:41They called out for someone to help them, but no one saved them.

Proverbs 28:9If people do not obey [MTY] God’s laws, God ◄detests their prayers/considers that their prayers stink►.

Isaiah 3:11But terrible things will happen to wicked people; they will be ◄paid back/punished► for the evil things that [MTY] they have done.

Isaiah 59:3You do violent things [MTY] to others, with the result that your hands are stained with their blood. You constantly tell [MTY] lies, and you say [MTY] evil things about others.

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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