Micah 3:9-11

The sins of the leaders of Jerusalem -- Micah 3:9-11: In a scathing rebuke Micah wrote about the injustice of rulers and love of money of prophets. He said, "You leaders accept bribes for dishonest decisions. You priests and prophets teach and preach, but only for money. Then you say, "The LORD is on our side. No harm will come to us." (Micah 3:11) Micah urged the heads of the Judah and Israel to heed the message of God. These people had been so evil and then they even said they would not be judged for their actions because God was with them.

These leaders abhorred right judgment. This attitude resulted in a perversion of all fairness in dealing with others. They had made "cruelty and murder a way of life in Jerusalem." Jeremiah 5:31 gives the same description, "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" Micah tells us that the prophets are false prophets for the love of money. "They even pretended to believe that the Lord would preserve them from all harm in spite of their inconsistent lives."