Passage

Judges taking bribes

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹²Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Micah 3:12World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

Micah accuses the leaders of judging for bribes and charging for religious instruction and predictions.

To understand

Those leaders claim that God’s presence means no disaster will reach them. The next verse announces Zion’s destruction because of them, describing Jerusalem as heaps of rubble.

A question

What assurance do the accused leaders give themselves?