Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Building Zion, with deeds of blood, - and Jerusalem, with perversity.
New American Standard Bible
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.
King James Version
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Holman Bible
and Jerusalem with injustice.
International Standard Version
who are building up Zion by means of bloodshed, and Jerusalem by means of iniquity.
A Conservative Version
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
American Standard Version
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Amplified
Who build Zion with blood [and extortion and murder]
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.
Bible in Basic English
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
Darby Translation
that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
Julia Smith Translation
Building Zion with bloods and Jerusalem with iniquity.
King James 2000
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
he who builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Modern King James verseion
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong.
NET Bible
You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.
New Heart English Bible
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Webster
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
World English Bible
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Youngs Literal Translation
Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Leaders Denounced
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel, - who abhor justice, and, all right, do pervert: 10 Building Zion, with deeds of blood, - and Jerusalem, with perversity. 11 Her heads, for a bribe, pronounce sentence, and, her priests, for a price, give direction, and, her prophets, for silver, divine, - yet, on Yahweh, they lean, saying, Is not, Yahweh, in our midst? there shall not come upon us, calamity.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 22:13-17
Alas! for him who buildeth his house without righteousness, And his roof-chambers without justice, - Of his neighbour, taketh service for nought, And recompense for his work, giveth him not.
Ezekiel 22:25-28
Because her princes in her midst are like a roaring lion rending prey, - Life, have they devoured Wealth and precious things, have they been wont to take, Her widows, have they multiplied in her midst.
Habakkuk 2:9-12
Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house, - that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers in her midst, are roaring lions, - her judges, evening wolves, they have left nothing until morning!
Matthew 27:25
And all the people, answering, said - His blood be upon us and upon our children!
John 11:50
nor do ye take into account, that it is profitable for you that, one man, should die for the people, and not, the whole nation, perish.