Bible Chapter Summary
Micah 3 Summary
Judgment on Corrupt Leaders
Micah addresses the heads of Jacob and princes of Israel, accusing them of hating good and loving evil, flaying the skin and eating the flesh of God's people as if they were meat for a pot. When they cry to the LORD in their affliction, he will not hear them but will hide his face because of their evil deeds. False prophets who bite with their teeth and cry peace shall have no vision; darkness will cover the seers and diviners. Though Micah is full of power by the LORD's spirit to declare Jacob's transgression, corrupt leaders judge for reward, priests teach for hire, and prophets divine for money, yet they claim the LORD is among them. Therefore Zion shall be plowed as a field and Jerusalem become heaps.
Key themes
Key verses
Micah 3:1-3
“And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?”
Micah 3:4
“Then shall they cry unto 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.”
Micah 3:11-12
“The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.”
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