Ashamed and Confounded

 July 10, 2023- Bible Reading and Meditation- Micah 3 KJV

“[7] Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. 

[8] But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.”

Thoughts to ponder: 

Ashamed and Confounded

Prophet Micah in his prophesying claimed to be full of power by the spirit of the Lord, as he rebuked the head, princes, seers, diviners, of Jacob: the Israel. 

The time will come when they will be ashamed and confounded, because The LORD will not hear their prayers. 

And the reason? They “devoured” their own people. They make merchandise of the weak. They “eat the flesh” of their own people. The LORD is worn out by their inhumane; these sinful deeds of the rulers, the diviners, the seers: the for- hire-spiritual counsellor. 

A reminder  for all leaders, nobles, pastors, preachers, and spiritual counsellors to be very careful of the these things the LORD hates; the greed of power, position and possession. 

These things causes many miseries in human lives, both the powerful and the peasants. 

Calamities, crimes and casualties are oftentimes comes from the raging anger of the LORD of Hosts. 

Let all be warned by this prophetic writings of Micah. The LORD’s hand will not get tired to bring forth His righteous judgement.  Surely even the wise and head full of knowledge will be ashamed and confounded for the evil they devised against the weak. 

Let all  fear  The LORD: The GOD of righteous judgement who is still seating on His throne.

Let praises of mankind be only for Him, and only for to His adoration. 

Amen!

Micah 3:1-12 KJV

[1] And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? [2] Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; [3] Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. [4] Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. [5] Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. [6] Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. [7] Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. [8] But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. [9] Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. [10] They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. [11] The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. [12] Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.