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Micah 3:1–4 – Leaders who devour the flock

What happens: Micah confronts rulers who hate justice and tear the people like meat. When they cry to the Lord, He does not answer because of their violence.

What it means: God is just and holds leaders to account. Authority exists to serve, not to consume, and abusive power brings silence from God in the day of trouble.

Micah 3:5–8 – False prophets vs. Spirit-empowered truth

What happens: Prophets who preach for pay mislead the people, but night and darkness fall on them. Micah stands filled with the Spirit, justice, and might to declare Jacob’s sin.

What it means: God values truth spoken with courage more than religious performance. The Holy Spirit empowers faithful witness that exposes sin and points to righteousness.

Micah 3:9–12 – Corrupt systems and a ruined Zion

What happens: Rulers build Zion with blood, priests teach for pay, and prophets tell fortunes for money while claiming the Lord is with them. Micah announces that Zion will be plowed like a field and the temple mount becomes a forested height.

What it means: Religious cover cannot hide injustice. God’s holiness means He will topple systems that use His name to justify evil, warning us not to trust structures over obedience.

Application

  • Use your influence to protect the weak, not to exploit them.
  • Seek the Spirit’s power to tell the truth when it costs you.
  • Do not lean on religious labels; pursue justice, mercy, and humility before God.

Bible

1And 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?

2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

4Then 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.

5Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

6Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

8But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11The 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.

12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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