Micah 3

Micah 3:2

Who hate the good, and love the evil: who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones.

How is it then, that you do contrarily? ye hate the good, and love the evil, and offer all cruelty and violence to them; as some unfaithful shepherd, who, instead of feeding his flock, fleas off their skins, and devoureth their flesh. So also verse 3.

Micah 3:5

That bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

Who, so as they may be fed up with the largesses of the people, cry peace and happiness; but, if they have not their mouths filled with gifts, are ready to load their niggardly hearers with threats of judgments:

Micah 3:6

Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

I will therefore utterly withdraw from you all vision; and ye shall no more see ought from me, than a man can see ought before him in the darkest night: my Spirit, which is as the sun, shall be fully set and gone down upon your prophets, and there shall be nothing but darkness of ignorance before them. So also verse 7.

Micah 3:8

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression.

But as for me, I am none of your soothing prophets: no; I am, by the Spirit of the Lord, filled with courage and undaunted zeal; with true judgment, and bold resolution to declare unto Jacob his transgression.

Micah 3:10

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

They build them stately houses in Zion and in Jerusalem, with those sums, which they have extorted from the very bowels of the oppressed innocents.

Micah 3:12

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Therefore, for your sakes shall mount Zion be so razed and levelled by the Chaldees, that it may be plowed as a field; and Jerusalem shall become heaps of rubbish; and mount Moriah shall lie like the rocky and wild hills of the desert.