Micah 3:6-7

3:6 Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; ¹ 

it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. ² 

The sun will set on these prophets,

and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads. ³ 

3:7 The prophets ⁴  will be ashamed;

the omen readers will be humiliated.

All of them will cover their mouths, ⁵ 

for they will receive no divine oracles.” ⁶ 

Micah 3:11

3:11 Her ⁷  leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, ⁸ 

her priests proclaim rulings for profit,

and her prophets read omens for pay.

Yet they claim to trust ⁹  the Lord and say,

“The Lord is among us. ¹⁰ 

Disaster will not overtake ¹¹  us!”

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “it will be night for you without a vision.”

[3:6]  ² tn Heb “it will be dark for you without divination.”

[3:6]  ³ tn Heb “and the day will be dark over them.”

[3:7]  ⁴ tn Or “seers.”

[3:7]  ⁵ tn Or “the mustache,” or perhaps “the beard.” Cf. KJV, NAB, NRSV “cover their lips.”

[3:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “for there will be no answer from God.”

[3:11]  ⁷ sn The pronoun Her refers to Jerusalem (note the previous line).

[3:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “judge for a bribe.”

[3:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “they lean upon” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “rely on.”

[3:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Is not the Lord in our midst?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course he is!”

[3:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “come upon” (so many English versions); NCV “happen to us”; CEV “come to us.”