Micah 3:10 who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.

English Standard Version
who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.

New American Standard Bible
Who build Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

King James Bible
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice.

International Standard Version
who are building up Zion by means of bloodshed, and Jerusalem by means of iniquity.

American Standard Version
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Darby Bible Translation
that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.

Young's Literal Translation
Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

Cross References

Jeremiah 22:13
Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not for his work;

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Micah 7:2
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:9-12 Zion's walls owe no thanks to those that build them up with blood and iniquity. The sin of man works not the righteousness of God. Even when men do that which in itself is good, but do it for filthy lucre, it becomes abomination both to God and man. Faith rests in the Lord as the soul's foundation: presumption only leans upon the Lord as a prop, and would use him to serve a turn. If men's having the Lord among them will not keep them from doing evil, it never can secure them from suffering evil for so doing. See the doom of wicked Jacob; Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field. This was exactly fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and is so at this day. If sacred places are polluted by sin, they will be wasted and ruined by the judgments of God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. They—change of person from "ye" (Mic 3:9); the third person puts them to a greater distance as estranged from Him. It is, literally, "Whosoever builds," singular.

build up Zion with blood—build on it stately mansions with wealth obtained by the condemnation and murder of the innocent (Jer 22:13; Eze 22:27; Hab 2:12).