Micah 33MicahJudgment on Samaria and JerusalemThe Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy Bible

The Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy BibleBerean Standard Bible

1. Rulers and Prophets Condemned

2. 1ENGOJBAnd I said: Hear, O Rashei Ya'akov, and ye Ketzinim of Bais Yisroel. Is it not for you to have da'as of Mishpat (Justice)?BSBBSB: Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
3. 2ENGOJBWho hate the tov, and love the rah; who tear off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their atzamot (bones);BSBBSB: You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
4. 3ENGOJBWho also eat the flesh of Ami, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their atzamot, and chop them in pieces, like for the pot, and like the basar within the caldron.BSBBSB: You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
5. 4ENGOJBThen shall they cry unto Hashem, but He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, because of the evil way they behaved themselves in their doings.BSBBSB: Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
6. 5ENGOJBThus saith Hashem concerning the nevi'im that make Ami err, leading them astray, the nevi'im that bite with their teeth, and preach: Shalom! And whoever putteth nothing into their mouths, v'kiddeshu milchamah (they sanctify war) against him.BSBBSB: This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
7. 6ENGOJBTherefore lailah shall be unto you, because of the chazon; and choshech shall come upon you because of the soothsaying, the divination; and the shemesh shall go down over the nevi'im, and hayom shall be dark over them.BSBBSB: Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
8. 7ENGOJBThen shall the chozim (seers) be ashamed, and the kosemim (diviners) blush in bushah; yea, they shall all cover their safam (mustache); ki ein ma'aneh Elohim (for there is no answer of G-d).BSBBSB: Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”
9. 8ENGOJBBut truly I am full of ko'ach by the Ruach of Hashem, and of mishpat, and of gevurah (might), to preach unto Ya'akov his peysha, and to Yisroel his chattat.BSBBSB: As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
10. 9ENGOJBHear this, I pray you, ye Rashei Bais Ya'akov, and Ketzinim of Bais Yisroel, that abhor mishpat, and twist kol haYesharah (all the right, the straight).BSBBSB: 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,
11. 10ENGOJBBoneh Tziyon b'damim (they build up Tziyon with blood), and Yerushalayim with avlah (iniquity).BSBBSB: who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
12. 11ENGOJBHer Rashim judge for a bribe, and her kohanim play the hireling moreh (teacher), and her nevi'im are fortune-tellers for kesef; yet will they lean upon Hashem? And say: Is not Hashem among us? No ra'ah will come upon us.BSBBSB: Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
13. 12ENGOJBTherefore because of you, Tziyon shall be plowed as a sadeh, and Yerushalayim shall become a rubble heap, and the Har HaBeis shall become a mound of scrubs.BSBBSB: Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.