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Micah 3:10
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who build Zion with bloodshedand Jerusalem with injustice.
They build up Tziyon with blood, And Yerushalayim with iniquity.
They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie.
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Who build Zion with bloodshed, And Jerusalem with malice.
You build Jerusalem by murdering people; you build it with evil.
Who build Zion with blood [and extortion and murder] And Jerusalem with violent injustice.
They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie.
Who build Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with violent injustice.
Who build Zion with bloodshedAnd Jerusalem with violent injustice.
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
You make cruelty and murder a way of life in Jerusalem.
who build up Tziyon with blood and Yerushalayim with wickedness.
that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
You build Zion by murdering people. You build Jerusalem by cheating people!
Who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity;
You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and injustice.
he who builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wickedness.
those building up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity:
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
That build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
They builde vp Sion with blood, and Hierusalem with iniquitie.
who build up Sion 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.
whiche bilden Sion in bloodis, and Jerusalem in wickidnesse.
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.
Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:
You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
You built Zion with blood and Jerusalem with much wrong-doing.
who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong!
You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong.
Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.
Ye that buylde vp Sion with bloude, and Ierusalem with doynge wronge.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
build up Zion: Jeremiah 22:13-17, Ezekiel 22:25-28, Habakkuk 2:9-12, Zephaniah 3:3, Matthew 27:25, John 11:50
blood: Heb. bloods
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:25 - General Proverbs 1:19 - every Isaiah 26:10 - in the Isaiah 59:3 - your hands Ezekiel 11:6 - General Ezekiel 12:19 - because Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Ezekiel 23:37 - and blood Micah 3:1 - Hear Habakkuk 2:12 - him John 18:28 - and they
Cross-References
And they were both of them naked, the man and his wife, - and put not each other to shame.
Then were opened the eyes of them both, and they knew that, naked, they were, - so they tacked together fig-leaves, and made for themselves girdles,
And, to the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;
Thorn also and thistle, shall it shoot forth to thee, - when thou hast come to eat of the herb of the field:
And he said - I, am the God of thy father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.
And Moses saw the people, that unbridled, they were, - for Aaron had given them the rein, for a whispering, among their enemies.
For this cause, from his presence, am I driven in fear, I diligently consider and am kept back from him in dread:
My flesh, bristled up from dread of thee, and, of thy regulations, stand I in fear.
Terror-stricken in Zion, - are sinners, Shuddering hath seized the impious, - Who among us can sojourn with a fire that devoureth? Who among us can sojourn with burnings age-abiding?
Bared shall be thy shame, Yea seen thy reproach, - An avenging, will I take, And will accept no son of earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Or, "O thou that buildest up" g, c. or "everyone of them that buildeth up" h, c. for the word is in the singular number but, be fire words rendered either of these ways, they respect the heads and princes of the people who either repaired the temple on Zion, or ornamented the king's palace, or built themselves fine stately houses in Jerusalem, or large streets there, by money they took of murderers to save them, as Kimchi; or by money got by rapine and oppression, by spoiling the poor of their goods and their livelihood, for them and their families, which was all one as shedding innocent blood; and by money obtained by bribes, for the perversion of justice, and such like illegal proceedings, truly called iniquity. The Targum is,
"who build their houses in Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with deceits.''
g בונה "aedificans", Montanus, Munster, Burkius. h "Quisque eorum aedificat", Vatablus, Piscator, Drusius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They build up - (literally, building, sing.) Zion with blood This may be taken literally on both sides, that, the rich built their palaces, “with wealth gotten by bloodshed , by rapine of the poor, by slaughter of the saints,” as Ezekiel says, ‘her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain’ Ezekiel 22:27. Or by blood he may mean that they indirectly took away life, in that, through wrong judgments, extortion, usury, fraud, oppression, reducing wages or detaining them, they took away what was necessary to support life. So it is said; ‘The bread of the needy is their life, he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood. He that taketh away his neighbor’s living slayeth him, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire is a bloodshedder’ (Ecclus. 34:21, 22). Or it may be, that as David prayed to God, ‘Build Thou the walls of Jerusalem, asking Him thereby to maintain or increase its well-being’ Psalms 51:18, so these men thought to promote the temporal prosperity of Jerusalem by doings which were unjust, oppressive, crushing to their inferiors.
So Solomon, in His degenerate days, made the yoke upon his people and his service grievious 1 Kings 12:4. So ambitious monarchs by large standing-armies or filling their exchequers drain the life-blood of their people. The physical condition and stature of the poorer population in much of France was lowered permanently by the conscriptions under the first Emperor. In our wealthy nation, the term poverty describes a condition of other days. We have had to coin a new name to designate the misery, offspring of our material prosperity. From our wealthy towns, (as from those of Flanders,) ascends to heaven against us , “the cry of ‘pauperism’ that is, the cry of distress, arrived at a condition of system and of power, and, by an unexpected curse, issuing from the very development of wealth. The political economy of unbelief has been crushed by facts on all the theaters of human activity and industry.”
Truly we “build up Zion with blood,” when we cheapen luxuries and comforts at the price of souls, use Christian toil like brute strength, tempt men to dishonesty and women to other sin, to eke out the scanty wages which alone our selfish thirst for cheapness allows, heedless of every thing save of our individual gratification, or the commercial prosperity, which we have made our god. Most awfully was “Zion built with blood,” when the Jews shed the innocent Blood, that John 11:48 the Romans might not take away their place and nation. But since He has said, “Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye did it not unto Me” Matthew 25:45, and, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?” Acts 9:4, when Saul was persecuting Christ’s members, then, in this waste of lives and of souls, we are not only wasting the Price of His Blood in ourselves and others, but are slaying Christ anew, and that, from the same motives as those who crucified Him 1 Corinthians 8:12. When ye sin (against the members, ye sin against Christ. Our commercial greatness is the Price of His Blood Matthew 27:6. In the judgments on the Jews, we may read our own national future; in the woe on those through whom the weak brother perishes for whom Christ died 1 Corinthians 8:11, we, if we partake or connive at it, may read our own.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Micah 3:10. They build up Zion with blood — They might cry out loudly against that butchery practised by Pekah, king of Israel, and Pul coadjutor of Rezie, against the Jews. See on Micah 2:9. But these were by no means clear themselves; for if they strengthened the city, or decorated the temple, it was by the produce of their exactions and oppressions of the people.
I do not know a text more applicable than this to slave-dealers; or to any who have made their fortunes by such wrongs as affect the life of man; especially the former, who by the gains of this diabolic traffic have built houses, c. for, following up the prophet's metaphor, the timbers, c., are the bones of the hapless Africans and the mortar, the blood of the defenceless progeny of Ham. What an account must all those who have any hand in or profit from this detestable, degrading, and inhuman traffic, give to Him who will shortly judge the quick and dead!
