MIC-1:1  The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite

in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah,

which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

MIC-1:2  Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that

therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the

Lord from his holy temple.

MIC-1:3  For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place,

and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

MIC-1:4  And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the

valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, [and] as the

waters [that are] poured down a steep place.

MIC-1:5  For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for

the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of

Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of

Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem?

MIC-1:6  Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field,

[and] as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the

stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the

foundations thereof.

MIC-1:7  And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to

pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire,

and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered

[it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire

of an harlot.

MIC-1:8  Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and

naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as

the owls.

MIC-1:9  For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto Judah;

 he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.

MIC-1:10  Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in

the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

MIC-1:11  Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy

shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the

mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

MIC-1:12  For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good:

 but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

MIC-1:13  O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the

swift beast: she [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter

of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

MIC-1:14  Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath:

the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.

MIC-1:15  Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of

Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

MIC-1:16  Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate

children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone

into captivity from thee.

*MIC-2:1  Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon

their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because

it is in the power of their hand.

MIC-2:2  And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and

houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his

house, even a man and his heritage.

MIC-2:3  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this

family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your

necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time [is] evil.

MIC-2:4  In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you,

and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be utterly

spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he

removed [it] from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

MIC-2:5  Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord

by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

MIC-2:6  Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they

shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame.

MIC-2:7  O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the

spirit of the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my

words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

MIC-2:8  Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull

off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as

men averse from war.

MIC-2:9  The women of my people have ye cast out from their

pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory

for ever.

MIC-2:10  Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest:

because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore

destruction.

MIC-2:11  If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie,

[saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink;

he shall even be the prophet of this people.

MIC-2:12  I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will

surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as

the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold:

they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.

MIC-2:13  The breaker is come up before them: they have broken

up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it:

and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head

of them.

*MIC-3:1  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?

MIC-3:2  Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off

their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

MIC-3:3  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.

MIC-3:4  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.

MIC-3:5  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.

MIC-3:6  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.

MIC-3:7  Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners

confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is]

no answer of God.

MIC-3:8  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.

MIC-3:9  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.

MIC-3:10  They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with

iniquity.

MIC-3:11  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.

MIC-3:12  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.

*MIC-4:1  But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the

mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the

top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills;

and people shall flow unto it.

MIC-4:2  And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us

go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God

of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in

his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of

the LORD from Jerusalem.

MIC-4:3  And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong

nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into

plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not

lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any

more.

MIC-4:4  But they shall sit every man under his vine and under

his fig tree; and none shall make [them] afraid: for the mouth

of the LORD of hosts hath spoken [it].

MIC-4:5  For all people will walk every one in the name of his

god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever

and ever.

MIC-4:6  In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that

halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that

I have afflicted;

MIC-4:7  And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that

was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over

them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

MIC-4:8  And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the

daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first

dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

MIC-4:9  Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is there] no king in

thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a

woman in travail.

MIC-4:10  Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of

Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out

of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt

go [even] to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the

LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

MIC-4:11  Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that

say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

MIC-4:12  But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither

understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the

sheaves into the floor.

MIC-4:13  Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make

thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt

beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain

unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole

earth.

*MIC-5:1  Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he

hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel

with a rod upon the cheek.

MIC-5:2  But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little

among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come

forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings

forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.

MIC-5:3  Therefore will he give them up, until the time [that]

she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his

brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

MIC-5:4  And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD,

 in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall

abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

MIC-5:5  And this [man] shall be the peace, when the Assyrian

shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces,

 then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight

principal men.

MIC-5:6  And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword,

 and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he

deliver [us] from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land,

and when he treadeth within our borders.

MIC-5:7  And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many

people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass,

that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

MIC-5:8  And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in

the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the

forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go

through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can

deliver.

MIC-5:9  Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries,

and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

MIC-5:10  And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD,

that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I

will destroy thy chariots:

MIC-5:11  And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw

down all thy strong holds:

MIC-5:12  And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and

thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:

MIC-5:13  Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy

standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more

worship the work of thine hands.

MIC-5:14  And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of

thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

MIC-5:15  And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon

the heathen, such as they have not heard.

*MIC-6:1  Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou

before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

MIC-6:2  Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye

strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy

with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

MIC-6:3  O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein

have I wearied thee? testify against me.

MIC-6:4  For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and

redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before

thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

MIC-6:5  O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab

consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from

Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the

LORD.

MIC-6:6  Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow

myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt

offerings, with calves of a year old?

MIC-6:7  Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or]

with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn

[for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my

soul?

MIC-6:8  He hath showed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what

doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love

mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

MIC-6:9  The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and [the man of]

wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath

appointed it.

MIC-6:10  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house

of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?

MIC-6:11  Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances,

and with the bag of deceitful weights?

MIC-6:12  For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the

inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is]

deceitful in their mouth.

MIC-6:13  Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee,

 in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

MIC-6:14  Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting

down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold,

but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I

give up to the sword.

MIC-6:15  Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt

tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and

sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

MIC-6:16  For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works

of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I

should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an

hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

*MIC-7:1  Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the

summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is]

no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

MIC-7:2  The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there

is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they

hunt every man his brother with a net.

MIC-7:3  That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the

prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the

great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it

up.

MIC-7:4  The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is

sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy

visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

MIC-7:5  Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a

guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy

bosom.

MIC-7:6  For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter

riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her

mother in law; a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house.

MIC-7:7  Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for

the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

MIC-7:8  Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I

shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light

unto me.

MIC-7:9  I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have

sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute

judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I

shall behold his righteousness.

MIC-7:10  Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it], and

shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy

God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down

as the mire of the streets.

MIC-7:11  [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that

day shall the decree be far removed.

MIC-7:12  [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from

Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress

even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to

mountain.

MIC-7:13  Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of

them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

MIC-7:14  Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine

heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of

Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of

old.

MIC-7:15  According to the days of thy coming out of the land of

Egypt will I show unto him marvellous [things].

MIC-7:16  The nations shall see and be confounded at all their

might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their

ears shall be deaf.

MIC-7:17  They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall

move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be

afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

MIC-7:18  Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity,

 and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his

heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he

delighteth [in] mercy.

MIC-7:19  He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us;

he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins

into the depths of the sea.

MIC-7:20  Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the mercy

to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days

of old.



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