Micah 3:9

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Summary

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.

I pray

Micah 3:1

Exodus 3:16

Hosea 5:1

That

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Bible References

I pray

And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;

Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

That

And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?

He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

General references

Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.