Micah 3:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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  • Jer 22:13-17 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work; 14 Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD. 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
  • Ezek 22:25-28 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in its midst. 26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children.
  • John 11:50 : 50 Nor do you consider that it is better for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.

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  • Hab 2:12
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    12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

  • Mic 3:11-12
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    79%

    11The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

    12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Mic 3:9
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    9Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    77%

    13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

    14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • Hos 6:8
    76%

    8Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

  • Joel 3:21
    75%

    21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

  • Ps 55:10
    74%

    10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

  • Isa 1:21
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    21How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Amos 3:10
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    10For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

  • Isa 3:8-9
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    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Ps 79:3
    74%

    3Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

  • Hos 4:2
    73%

    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Isa 1:27
    73%

    27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

  • Joel 3:19
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    19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Zeph 3:4
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    4Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Mic 1:5
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    5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

  • Nah 3:1
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    1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey does not depart;

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Jer 6:6
    72%

    6For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Cut down trees, and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited; she is full of oppression in her midst.

  • Ezek 22:6-7
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    6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood.

    7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

  • Ps 122:3
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    3Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:

  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

  • Ezek 7:23
    71%

    23Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

  • Ps 51:18
    71%

    18Do good in your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 22:12-13
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    71%

    12In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.

    13Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • Ps 94:21
    71%

    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.

  • Hos 4:8
    71%

    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Ezek 22:9
    71%

    9In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

  • Jer 5:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

  • Lam 1:17
    71%

    17Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be all around him: Jerusalem is like a menstruous woman among them.

  • Mic 4:11
    71%

    11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • Ezek 22:3
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    3Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

  • Jer 3:17
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    17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk anymore after the imagination of their evil heart.

  • Hos 5:10
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    10The princes of Judah were like those who remove a boundary: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

  • Lam 5:11
    71%

    11They ravished the women in Zion, the young women in the cities of Judah.

  • Isa 14:21
    71%

    21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

  • Mal 1:4
    71%

    4Though Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.

  • Jer 22:13
    70%

    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;