Micah 3:9
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all equity.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 58:1-2 : 1 > Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
- Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
- Jer 5:28 : 28 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.
- Hos 5:1 : 1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, And give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; For you have been a snare at Mizpah, And a net spread on Tabor.
- Mic 3:1 : 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?
- Prov 17:15 : 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
- Exod 3:16 : 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;
- Lev 26:15 : 15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
- Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
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- Mic 3:1-22 verses87%
1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?
2 You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones;
- Hos 5:1-22 verses79%
1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, And give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; For you have been a snare at Mizpah, And a net spread on Tabor.
2 The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
- Mic 3:10-123 verses79%
10 They build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 Her leaders judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it tell forturnes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.
12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, And the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
- Isa 3:14-152 verses77%
14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, And their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
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8 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his disobedience, And to Israel his sin.
- Isa 10:1-22 verses76%
1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness;
2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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7 You who turn justice to wormwood, And cast down righteousness to the earth:
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1 Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
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4 Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
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9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.
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23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; And the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
- Amos 3:9-102 verses74%
9 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, And say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, And see what unrest is in her, And what oppression is among them."
10 "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
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13 "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.
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3 Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, From which you will not remove your necks, Neither will you walk haughtily; For it is an evil time.
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4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,
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10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
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5 "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, And for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem?
- Amos 5:11-122 verses73%
11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.
12 For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.
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7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
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6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
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11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh.
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23 Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!
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14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
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9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
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12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;
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10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
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1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land.
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17 Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow."
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28 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.
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14 Why hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
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3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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4 Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
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3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
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16 For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.
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7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And deny justice to the oppressed; And a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
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4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
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20 Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
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11 Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of Yahweh:
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16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, And all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, That I may make you a ruin, And her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
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3 And I will cut off the judge from their midst, And will kill all its princes with him," says Yahweh.
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1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.