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Micah 7:3

American King James Version (1999)

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

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He shuts his eyes to devise fraudulent things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.

A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are silly children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

Her princes in the middle thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood.

Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad;

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 perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD sees not.

Their drink is sour: they have committed prostitution continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give you.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean on the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come on us.

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

And said to them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.




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