Micah 3 - Christian Standard Bible（CSB）

Unjust Leaders Judged

1Then I said, “Now listen,  leaders of Jacob,

you rulers of the house of Israel.

Aren’t you supposed to know what is just? 

2You hate good and love evil.

You tear off people’s skin 

and strip their flesh from their bones.

3You eat the flesh  of my people

after you strip their skin from them

and break their bones.

You chop them up 

like flesh for the cooking pot,

like meat in a cauldron.”

4Then they will cry out  to the  Lord,

but he will not answer them.

He will hide his face from them at that time 

because of the crimes they have committed.

False Prophets Judged

5This is what the  Lord  says

concerning the prophets

who lead my people astray, 

who proclaim  peace

when they have food to sink their teeth into

but declare war against the one

who puts nothing in their mouths.

6Therefore, it will be night  for you —

without visions;

it will grow dark for you —

without divination. 

The sun will set  on these prophets,

and the daylight will turn black over them.

7Then the seers will be ashamed 

and the diviners disappointed. 

They will all cover their mouths  ,

because there will be no answer from God. 

8As for me, however, I am filled with power 

by the Spirit of the  Lord,

with justice and courage,

to proclaim to Jacob his rebellion

and to Israel his sin.  Zion’s Destruction

9Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob, 

you rulers of the house of Israel,

who abhor justice 

and pervert everything that is right,

10who build Zion with bloodshed 

and Jerusalem with injustice.

11Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, 

her priests teach for payment, 

and her prophets practice divination for silver.

Yet they lean on the  Lord, saying,

“Isn’t the Lord   among us?

No disaster will overtake us.”

12Therefore, because of you,

Zion will be plowed like a field,

Jerusalem will become ruins, 

and the temple’s mountain 

will be a high thicket.