Catholic Public Domain Version
"You build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. "
— Micah 3:10, Catholic Public Domain Version
“They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.”
“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 those who see visions will be confounded, and the diviners will be confounded. And they will all cover their faces, because there is no response from God.
Nevertheless, truly I have been filled with the strength of the Spirit of the Lord, with judgment and virtue, in order to announce to Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.
Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and judges of the house of Israel, you who abominate judgment and who pervert all that is right.
You build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Her leaders have judged for tributes, and her priests have taught for payment, and her prophets divined for money. And they leaned upon the Lord, saying: “Is not the Lord in our midst? No disaster will overcome us.”
For this reason, because of you, Zion will be plowed under like a field, and Jerusalem will become like a pile of stones, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of the forests.