Micah 3:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor and reject justice and pervert all equity,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

Common English Bible

⁹ Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel, you who reject justice and make crooked all that is straight,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and judges of the house of Israel, you who abominate judgment and who pervert all that is right.

Micah 3:9 Cross References

Nehemiah 13:17

Then I contended with the nobles of Yehuḏ

Exodus 3:16

“Go, and you shall gather the elders of Yisra’ĕ

Proverbs 17:15

He who declares the wrong right, And he who condemns the righteous, Both of them are an abomination to יהוה.

Proverbs 17:23

One who is wrong accepts a bribe behind the back To pervert the paths of right-ruling.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to show partiality to the wrong, Or to turn aside the righteous in right-ruling.

Proverbs 21:7

The spoil of the wrong catches them, Because they refused to do right- ruling.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

Jeremiah 5:28

‘They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.

Ezekiel 44:23

“And they are to teach My people the difference between the set-apart and the profane, and make them know what is unclean and clean.

Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, O priests! And listen, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Leviticus 26:15

and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,

Amos 5:7

“O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!”

Micah 1:1

The word of יהוה  that came to Miḵ

Micah 3:1

Then I said, “Hear now, O heads of Yaʽ

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who twists the right-ruling of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕ