en_tn/mic/03/09.md

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)