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MIC 01:01 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 01:02 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 01:03 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place,
and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
MIC 01:04 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 01:05 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 01:06 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 01:07 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 01:08 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 01:09 For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto
Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to
Jerusalem.
MIC 01:10 Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in
the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
MIC 01:11 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 01:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for
good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of
Jerusalem.
MIC 01:13 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 01:14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath:
the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.
MIC 01:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of
Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
MIC 01:16 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 02:01 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 02:02 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 02:03 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 02:04 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 02:05 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a
cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
MIC 02:06 Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy:
they shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take
shame.
MIC 02:07 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 02:08 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 02:09 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 02:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest:
because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore
destruction.
MIC 02:11 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 02:12 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 02:13 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 03:01 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 03:02 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off
their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
MIC 03:03 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 03:04 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 03:05 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 03:06 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 03:07 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 03:08 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 03:09 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 03:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with
iniquity.
MIC 03:11 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 03:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a
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