Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes,and her priests teach for a price,and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:yet they lean on the Lord, and say,"Isn't the Lord in the midst of us?No disaster will come on us."
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In The King James Version
In Context
10They build up Zion with blood,and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Cross References
Numbers 22:7The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
1 Samuel 8:3His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
Proverbs 17:23A wicked man receives a bribe in secret,to pervert the ways of justice.
Isaiah 48:2(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name):
Jeremiah 5:12They have denied the Lord, and said, "It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine.
Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust in lying words, saying, "The Lord's temple, The Lord's temple, The Lord's temple, are these."
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 →