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Micah 7:3

Lighthouse Bible 2006

So that they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he speaks his mischievous desire: so they weave it together.

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

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

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

For, behold, the LORD is coming out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall reveal 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 schemes also of the selfish person are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Who 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 were able.

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no 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 those who 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 bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and unjust gain, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves devouring the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you according 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 exceedingly 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 does not see.

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers love with shame, saying Give ye.

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 are risen up like an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men who turn away from war.

Their heads judge for reward, and their priests teach for wages, and their prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.

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

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

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




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