Micah 3:10-12

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¹⁰You build Zion by murdering people.^[a]
    You build Jerusalem by cheating people!
¹¹The judges in Jerusalem accept bribes
    to help them decide who wins in court.
The priests in Jerusalem must be paid
    before they will teach the people.
People must pay the prophets
    before they will look into the future.
Then those leaders expect the Lord to help them.
    They say, “The Lord lives here with us,
    so nothing bad will happen to us.”

¹²Leaders, because of you, Zion will be destroyed.
It will become a plowed field.
Jerusalem will become a pile of rocks.
Temple Mount will be an empty hill^[b] overgrown with bushes.

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Footnotes

Micah 3:10 murdering people Literally, “bloodshed.”
Micah 3:12 empty hill Or “high place,” a term usually used for local shrines (places for worship) where people often worshiped idols.