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Micah 3:9

The Scriptures 1998

Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽ

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Then I contended with the nobles of Yehuḏ

“Go, and you shall gather the elders of Yisra’ĕ

He who declares the wrong right, And he who condemns the righteous, Both of them are an abomination to יהוה.

One who is wrong accepts a bribe behind the back To pervert the paths of right-ruling.

It is not good to show partiality to the wrong, Or to turn aside the righteous in right-ruling.

The spoil of the wrong catches them, Because they refused to do right- ruling.

Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

‘They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.

“And they are to teach My people the difference between the set-apart and the profane, and make them know what is unclean and clean.

“Hear this, O priests! And listen, O house of Yisra’ĕ

and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,

“O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!”

The word of יהוה  that came to Miḵ

Then I said, “Hear now, O heads of Yaʽ

‘Cursed is he who twists the right-ruling of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕ




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