Micah 3:9

New Living Translation

Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:17

So I confronted the nobles of Judah. “Why are you profaning the Sabbath in this evil way?” I asked.

Exodus 3:16

“Now go and call together all the elders of Israel. Tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me. He told me, “I have been watching closely, and I see how the Egyptians are treating you.

Proverbs 17:15

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent— both are detestable to the Lord.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked take secret bribes to pervert the course of justice.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not right to acquit the guilty or deny justice to the innocent.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked sweeps them away, because they refuse to do what is just.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are fat and sleek, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse to provide justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.

Ezekiel 44:23

They will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, what is ceremonially clean and unclean.

Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, you priests. Pay attention, you leaders of Israel. Listen, you members of the royal family. Judgment has been handed down against you. For you have led the people into a snare by worshiping the idols at Mizpah and Tabor.

Leviticus 26:15

and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,

Amos 5:7

You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed. You treat the righteous like dirt.

Micah 1:1

The Lord gave this message to Micah of Moresheth during the years when Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah. The visions he saw concerned both Samaria and Jerusalem.

Micah 3:1

I said, “Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is anyone who denies justice to foreigners, orphans, or widows.’ And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’