Micah 3:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Leaders of Jacob and rulers of Israel, listen to me! You hate the right way of living! If something is straight, then you make it crooked!

Cross References

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels and friends of thieves. They demand bribes and accept money for doing wrong. They take money to cheat people, and they don’t speak up for widows and orphans. They will not even listen to their cries for help.

Proverbs 17:15

The Lord hates these two things: punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who does not give fair judgment for the foreigners, orphans, and widows!’ “Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Micah 3:1

Then I said, “Listen, leaders of Jacob and officers of the nation of Israel! You should know what justice is.

Hosea 5:1

“Priests, nation of Israel, and people in the king’s family, listen to me. You have been judged guilty! “You were like a trap at Mizpah and like a net spread on the ground at Tabor.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown big and fat from the evil they have done. There is no end to the evil they do. They will not plead the case of children who have no parents. They will not help these orphans. They will not let the poor be judged fairly.

Leviticus 26:15

If you refuse to obey my laws and commands, you have broken my agreement.

Exodus 3:16

“Now go and call together the elders of the people. Tell them that YAHWEH, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—appeared to you. Give them this message from me: ‘I have been watching over you and have seen what people in Egypt have done to you.

Proverbs 18:5

You must be fair in judging others. It is wrong to favor the guilty and rob the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 21:7

The bad things that evil people do will destroy them, because they refuse to do what is right.

Ezekiel 44:23

“Also, the priests must teach my people the difference between things that are holy and things that are not holy. They must help my people know what is clean and what is unclean.

Micah 1:1

During the time that Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, the word of the Lord came to Micah. Micah was from Moresheth. He saw these visions about Samaria and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13:17

I told the important people of Judah that they were wrong. I said, “You are doing a very bad thing. You are ruining the Sabbath day.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked judge will accept a bribe, and that keeps justice from being done.

Amos 5:7

You should go to the Lord for help. He is the one who made the Pleiades and Orion. He changes darkness into the morning light. He changes the day into the dark night. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is YAHWEH! He keeps one strong city safe, and he lets another strong city be destroyed.” You change justice to poison. You throw away fairness like trash.