Micah 3:1–4

Rulers and Prophets Denounced

3 And I said:

lHear, you heads of Jacob

and rulers of the house of Israel!

mIs it not for you to know justice?—

2  you nwho hate the good and love the evil,

owho tear the skin from off my people1

and their flesh from off their bones,

3  pwho eat the flesh of my people,

and flay their skin from off them,

and break their bones in pieces

and chop them up like meat in a pot,

like flesh in a cauldron.

4  qThen they will cry to the Lord,

but he will not answer them;

rhe will hide his face from them at that time,

because they have made their deeds evil.