Micah 3:9 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁹ Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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

⁹ 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)

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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.

Micah 3:9 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 13:17

I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, ‘What is this wicked thing you are doing – desecrating the Sabbath day?

Exodus 3:16

‘Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, “The Lord, the God of your fathers – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.

Proverbs 17:15

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – the Lord detests them both.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

Jeremiah 5:28

and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor.

Ezekiel 44:23

They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 5:1

‘Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

Leviticus 26:15

and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,

Amos 5:7

There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

Micah 1:1

The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah – the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Micah 3:1

Then I said, ‘Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’