{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T21:34:21.980Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Micah","bookSlug":"micah","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":7,"totalVerses":12},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Therefore night shall be to you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean on the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come on us."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Micah 3 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Micah 3](https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/3 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}