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## You build Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity ##
The rich were building themselves beautiful homes often at the expense and mistreatment of the poor. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
## blood ##
Here "blood" refers to murder. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] )
## Is not Yahweh with us? No evil will come to us. ##
Micah quotes the leaders who wrongly think Yahweh would not punish them for their sinful deeds. The Hebrew word for "evil" here is the same as for "disaster" in 2:3, a key word in the book. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])