The Bible Study Podcast, episode 762.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Micah with chapter three.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

Chapter three is about

leaders and prophets rebuked. And it sounds like this. Then I said, listen to you leaders of Jacob,

you rulers of Israel, should you not embrace justice, you who hate good and love evil,

who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones, who eat my

people's flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces, who chop them up like meat

for the pan, like flesh for the pot, when they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them.

At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done. This is what the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time, he will hide his face from them because of the

evil they have done. This is what the Lord says. As for the prophets who lead my people astray,

they proclaim peace if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses

to feed them. Therefore night will come over you without visions and

darkness and divination. The sun will set for the prophets and the day will go dark for them.

The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because

there is no answer from God. But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and

might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.

Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort

all that is right, who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem

with wickedness. Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets

tell fortunes for money, yet they look for the Lord's support and say, is not the Lord among us,

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