Mic.7.3

Micah 7:3

KJV

¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Israel’s Great Misery

Cross References

Proverbs 4:16

KJV

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

A Father’s Instruction

Proverbs 4:17

KJV

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

A Father’s Instruction

Proverbs 17:23

KJV

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness

Isaiah 1:23

KJV

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

The Corruption of Zion

Isaiah 3:5

KJV GOD

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah

God Will Remove the Leaders

Isaiah 5:23

KJV

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Woes to the Wicked

Isaiah 32:7

KJV

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

A Righteous King

Ezekiel 9:9

KJV GOD

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

Execution of the Idolaters

Ezekiel 22:12

KJV GOD

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

The Sins of Jerusalem

Hosea 7:3

KJV GOD

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Ephraim’s Iniquity

Amos 5:12

KJV GOD

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

A Call to Repentance

Micah 2:8

KJV GOD

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

Reproof of False Prophets

Micah 3:2

KJV

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Rulers and Prophets Condemned

Micah 3:11

KJV

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.