Then I contended with the nobles of Yehudah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the day of Shabbat?
Micah 3:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Ya`akov, and rulers of the house of Yisra'el, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor and reject justice and pervert all equity, American Standard Version (1901) Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity. Common English Bible Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel, you who reject justice and make crooked all that is straight, Catholic Public Domain Version Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and judges of the house of Israel, you who abominate judgment and who pervert all that is right. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment, and pervert all that is right. |
Then I contended with the nobles of Yehudah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the day of Shabbat?
Go, and gather the elders of Yisra'el together, and tell them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, of Yitzchak, and of Ya`akov, has appeared to me, saying, *I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
*Listen to this, you Kohanim! Listen, house of Yisra'el, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mitzpah, and a net spread on Tavor.
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my mitzvot, but break my covenant;
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
The word of the LORD that came to Mikhah the Morashti in the days of Yotam, Achaz, and Chizkiyahu, kings of Yehudah, which he saw concerning Shomron and Yerushalayim.
I said, *Please listen, you heads of Ya`akov, and rulers of the house of Yisra'el: Isn't it for you to know justice?
Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amein.