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Rulers and Prophets Condemned

Micah 3:10

In 11 translations

BSB
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
KJV
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.blood: Heb. bloods
WEB
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
ASV
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
LSV
Building up Zion with blood, || And Jerusalem with iniquity.
YLT
Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.
DBY
that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
DRC
You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
GNV
They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie.
JPS
That build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
LXXE
who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
בֹּנֶ֥ה צִיּ֖וֹן בְּדָמִ֑ים וִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם בְּעַוְלָֽה׃
LXX-Br
οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες Σιὼν ἐν αἵμασι, καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐν ἀδικίαις,

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📍 Jerusalem📍 Zion◆ Prophecies of Micah

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Habakkuk 2:9–12Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster! You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life. For the stones will…
  • Jeremiah 22:13–17“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages, who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with…
  • Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
  • Ezekiel 22:25–28The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her. Her priests do violence to My law…
  • Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
  • John 11:50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

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