Micah 3

Verse 1

WEB I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

KJV 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?

TSK Hear: mic 3:9,10, isa 1:10, jer 13:15-18, jer 22:2,3, ho 5:1, am 4:1; Is it: de 1:13-17, de 16:18, 2ch 19:5-10, ps 14:4, ps 82:1-5, jer 5:4,5, 1co 6:5

Verse 2

WEB You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

KJV Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

TSK hate: 1ki 21:20, 1ki 22:6-8, am 5:10-14, lu 19:14, joh 7:7, joh 15:18,19,23,24, ac 7:51,52, ro 12:9, 2ti 3:3; love: 2ch 19:2, ps 15:4, ps 139:21,22, pr 28:4, joh 18:40, ro 1:32; pluck: ps 53:4, isa 3:15, eze 22:27, eze 34:3, am 8:4-6, zep 3:3, zec 11:4,5

Verse 3

WEB who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

KJV 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.

TSK eat: ps 14:4; and chop: eze 11:3,6,7

Verse 4

WEB Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

KJV 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.

TSK Then: mic 2:3,4, jer 5:31; cry: ps 18:41, pr 1:28, pr 28:9, isa 1:15, jer 2:27,28, eze 8:18, zec 7:13, mt 7:22, lu 13:25, joh 9:31, jas 2:13; he will even: de 31:17,18, de 32:19,20, isa 59:1-15, jer 33:5; as: isa 3:11, ro 2:8,9

Verse 5

WEB Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

KJV 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.

TSK concerning: mic 3:11, isa 9:15,16, jer 14:14,15, jer 23:9-17,27,32, jer 28:15-17, jer 29:21-23, eze 13:10-16, eze 22:25-29, mal 2:8, mt 15:14; that bite: mic 2:11, isa 56:9-12, eze 13:18,19, mt 7:15, ro 16:18

Verse 6

WEB “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

KJV 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.

TSK night: ps 74:9, isa 8:20-22, jer 13:16, eze 13:22,23, zec 13:2-4; that ye shall not have a vision: isa 29:10, isa 59:10, jer 15:9, am 8:9,10

Verse 7

WEB The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.”

KJV Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

TSK the seers: ex 8:18,19, ex 9:11, 1sa 9:9, isa 44:25, isa 47:12-14, da 2:9-11, zec 13:4, 2ti 3:8,9; cover: le 13:45, eze 24:17,22; no: 1sa 14:37, 1sa 28:6,15, ps 74:9, am 8:11

Verse 8

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK I am: job 32:18, isa 11:2,3, isa 58:1, jer 1:18, jer 6:11, jer 15:19-21, jer 20:9, eze 3:14, mt 7:29, mr 3:17, ac 4:8-12,19,20, ac 7:54-57, ac 13:9-12, ac 18:5,6,9-11, 1co 2:4,12,13; to declare: isa 58:1, eze 16:2, eze 20:4, eze 22:2, eze 43:10, mt 3:7-12, ac 7:51,52

Verse 9

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK I pray: mic 3:1, ex 3:16, ho 5:1; that: le 26:15, de 27:19, ps 58:1,2, pr 17:15, isa 1:23, jer 5:28

Verse 10

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

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

TSK build up Zion: jer 22:13-17, eze 22:25-28, hab 2:9-12, zep 3:3, mt 27:25, joh 11:50

Verse 11

WEB 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 Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”

KJV 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.

TSK heads: mic 7:3, nu 16:15, 1sa 8:3, 1sa 12:3,4, isa 1:23, eze 22:12,27, ho 4:18, zep 3:3; and the priests: jer 6:13, jer 8:10, mal 1:10, 1ti 3:3, tit 1:11, 1pe 5:2; and the prophets: mic 3:5, isa 56:11, ac 8:18-20, 2pe 2:1-3,14,15, jude 1:11; yet: 1sa 4:3-6, isa 48:2, jer 7:4,8-12, mt 3:9, ro 2:17-29; none evil can come: am 9:10

Verse 12

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK Zion: mic 1:6, ps 79:1, ps 107:34, jer 26:18, mt 24:2, ac 6:13,14; the mountain: mic 4:1,2, isa 2:2,3