American Standard Version
"They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. "
— Micah 3:10, American Standard Version
“They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.”
“They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.”
“You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.”
“You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.”
“They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.”
“They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.”
And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
Therefore 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 a forest.