“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 will not hear them: he will even
hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves
ill in their doings. 5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he
that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. 6
Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision;
and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun
shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. 7
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they
shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.”
“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 for money: yet will they lean upon
the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon
us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high
places of the forest.” (Micah 3:1-12 AV)