Micah 3:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ and he will say, "Hear these things ye children of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel, is it not your business to know judgment?

¹³ Appoint for yourselves men of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, for your several tribes, and I will make them leaders over you. ¹⁴ And you answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast proposed to do is good. ¹⁵ So I took from among you men of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and appointed them to be leaders over you; captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens; and promulgators of the law for your judges. ¹⁶ And I gave a charge to your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not respect a person in judgment. Against the low and the high thou shalt pass sentence, and not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. And if the matter be too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.

¹⁸ Thou shalt appoint for thyself judges, and promulgators of the law, in the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, in every tribe. And they shall administer just judgment to the people.

⁵ And when he appointed the judges in all the fortified cities of Juda, city by city, ⁶ he said to the judges, Take heed what you do. For you judge not for man, but for the Lord, and with you are the words of the judgment. ⁷ Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Keep watch and do your duty; for with the Lord our God there is no injustice, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes. ⁸ In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed some of the priests and Levites and patriarchs of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁹ And he gave them a charge, saying, Thus shall you act, in the fear of the Lord, with truth and with an upright heart; ¹⁰ You must all conjointly determine every cause of your brethren who dwell in their cities, which shall come before you for decision, between blood and blood, and between ordinance and command. And you shall explain to them the rules of rectitude and judgments, that they may not sin against the Lord, and that no wrath may come upon you, nor upon your brethren. Thus you shall do and not sin.

⁴ Will they all continue senseless? They are going on in a course of iniquity: they are eating up my people as they do bread: they have not called on the Lord.

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods. ² [J] How long will you judge unjustly; and respect the persons of sinners? [[J] Jehovah [p] the prophet or psalmist.] ³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand. ⁵ They did not know; nor did they understand. They walked on in darkness. All the foundations of the land shall be shaken.

¹⁰ Hear a word of the Lord, chiefs of Sodom! Attend to the law of God, ye people of Gomorra!

⁴ Then I said, perhaps they are poor, therefore they could not. Because they have not known the way of the Lord and the judgment of God, ⁵ I will go to the nobles and speak to them. [J] Because these knew the way of the Lord and the judgment of God, and lo! with one consent, have broken the yoke and burst the bands;

¹⁵ [p] Hearken and give ear and be not elated; for the Lord hath spoken. ¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before the darkness cometh, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains; when you will wait for light; and the shadow of death will be there; and they shall be placed in darkness. ¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed. ¹⁸ [J] Say to the king and the rulers: Humble yourselves and sit on the ground; for from your head is taken your crown of glory.

² and say, Hear a word of the Lord, king of Juda, who art seated on the throne of David, thou and thy household and thy people and they who enter in at these gates! ³ Thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment and justice and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of him who wrongeth him; and over the stranger and the orphan and the widow tyrannise not; nor be guilty of impiety; nor shed innocent blood in this place.

¹ [p] Hear these things ye priests; and attend ye house of Israel, and ye household of the king give ear; for against you is this indictment, because you are become a snare in the watch tower; and like a net spread upon Itaburion,

¹ Hear this word, ye heifers of Basanitis, ye who are on the mountain of Samaria; who tyrannise over the distressed and trample the needy, who say to your masters, Bring and let us drink.

⁹ [p] Hear these things I beseech you, ye leaders of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment and pervert all equity, ¹⁰ who are building up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with injustice.

⁵ To your shame I say, is it so that there is not among you a wise man; not so much as one who can determine a cause between brethren;