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Micah 3:9

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

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ASV

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

KJV

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.

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שִׁמְעוּ־shim.'u-hearH8085 →
נָ֣אna'pleaseH4994 →
זֹ֗אתZotthisH2063 →
רָאשֵׁי֙ra.SheiO chiefs ofH7218 →
בֵּ֣יתbeit[the] house ofH1004 →
יַעֲקֹ֔בya.'a.KoJacobH3290 →
וּקְצִינֵ֖יu.ke.tzi.Neiand O rulers ofH7101 →
בֵּ֣יתbeit[the] house ofH1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
הַֽמֲתַעֲבִ֣יםha.ma.ta.'a.Vimwho loatheH8581 →
מִשְׁפָּ֔טmish.PatjusticeH4941 →
וְאֵ֥תve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
כָּל־kol-everyH3605 →
הַיְשָׁרָ֖הhay.sha.Rah<the> straight [thing]H3477 →
יְעַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃ye.'a.Ke.shuthey make crookedH6140 →

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Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.Psalms 101:8Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.Psalms 58:1–2Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?Proverbs 17:15Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Romans 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.Micah 3:1Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?Leviticus 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.Exodus 3:16Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.Hosea 5:1“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.Jeremiah 3:21A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.Joel 1:2Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.Micah 2:7Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?Nehemiah 13:17Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?Hosea 6:9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

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Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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