(KJV) Micah 3¹

⥃Rulers and Prophets Condemned

[1] And I said, Hear², I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it³] not for you to know judgment?⁴ [2] Who hate⁵ the good, and love⁶ the evil; who pluck⁷ off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; [3] Who also eat⁸ the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop⁹ them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. [4] Then¹⁰ shall they cry¹¹ unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even¹² hide his face from them at that time, as¹³ they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

[5] [¶]Thus saith the Lord concerning¹⁴ the prophets that make my people err, that bite¹⁵ with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. [6] Therefore night¹⁶ [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision¹⁷; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine¹⁸; and the sun¹⁹ shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. [7] Then shall the seers²⁰ be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover²¹ their lips²²; for [there is] no²³ answer of God.

[8] But truly I am²⁴ full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare²⁵ unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. [9] Hear this, I pray²⁶ you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that²⁷ abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. [10] They build up Zion²⁸ with blood²⁹, and Jerusalem with iniquity. [11] The heads³⁰ thereof judge for reward, and the priests³¹ thereof teach for hire, and the prophets³² thereof divine for money: yet³³ will they lean upon the Lord, and say³⁴, [Is] not the Lord among us? none evil can come³⁵ upon us. [12] Therefore shall Zion³⁶ for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain³⁷ of the house as the high places of the forest.