Micah 3:1 {2:13}
Good News Translation
Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,

New Revised Standard Version
And I said: Listen, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Should you not know justice?—

Contemporary English Version
Listen to me, you rulers of Israel! You know right from wrong,

New American Bible
And I said: Hear, you leaders of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not your duty to know what is right,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.

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For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.

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Micah 3:9,10 But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin. . . .

Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

Jeremiah 13:15-18 Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. . . .

Jeremiah 22:2,3 And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, king of Juda, that sittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants, and thy people, who enter in by these gates. . . .

Hosea 5:1 Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over and a net spread upon Thabor.

Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

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Deuteronomy 1:13-17 Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:18 Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,

2 Chronicles 19:5-10 And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda, in every place. . . .

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 82:1-5 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods. . . .

Jeremiah 5:4,5 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren?

Context
Rulers and Prophets Condemned
1For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.2And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,…
Cross References
Psalm 82:1
A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

Psalm 82:5
They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

Isaiah 1:10
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Ezekiel 9:9
And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds?

Micah 2:13
I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.

Micah 3:9
But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.

Micah 2:13
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