Micah 3:11

Modern English Version

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet upon the Lord they lean, saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.”

Cross References

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man accepts a concealed bribe to pervert the ways of justice.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 48:2

for they call themselves after the holy city, and lean on the God of Israel; the Lord of Hosts is His name:

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

Isaiah 56:11

They are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds who cannot understand; they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.

Jeremiah 23:17

They still say to those who despise Me, “The Lord has said, ‘You will have peace’ ”; and they say to everyone who walks after the imagination of his own heart, “No evil will come upon you.”

Jeremiah 26:7

So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:12

They have lied about the Lord, and said, “Not He. Neither shall evil come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.”

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not trust in lying words, saying, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to obtain dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

Hosea 4:18

Their drink has soured, they have played the whore continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.

Hosea 4:8

They feed upon the sin of My people, and they are greedy for their iniquity.

Amos 5:14

Seek good and not evil, so that you may live; then the Lord, the God of Hosts, will truly be with you, as you claim.

Amos 9:10

All the sinners of My people will die by the sword, those who say, “Never will disaster reach or overtake us.”

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord: Regarding the prophets who mislead My people — the ones who have something to eat proclaim “Peace,” but if one does not feed them, then they prepare for war against him.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and done violence to the law.

Malachi 1:10

Who is there among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on My altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of Hosts, nor will I accept an offering from your hand.

Malachi 2:9

So I have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in the law.

Numbers 16:15

Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt one of them.”

Numbers 22:7

The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went with the divination payments in their hand, and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.

Matthew 3:9

and do not think to say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money, but patient, not argumentative, not covetous;

Titus 1:11

who must be silenced, who subvert whole houses by teaching for dishonest gain things they ought not teach.

1 Peter 5:2

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, take care of them, not by constraint, but willingly, not for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily after the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his way, for they followed after unlawful gain, and they took bribes, and they perverted justice.