Micah |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
1:5: For the transgression of Jacob is all
this, and for the sins of the house of |
1:6: Therefore I will make |
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. |
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. |
1:9: For her wound is incurable; for it is
come unto |
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2:1: Woe to them that devise iniquity, and
work evil upon their beds! when the
morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
2:5: Therefore thou shalt have none that
shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. |
2:6: Prophesy ye not, say they to them that
prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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3:1: And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of
Jacob, and ye princes of the house of |
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;
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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. |
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. |
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.
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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. |
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. |
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 |
3:9: Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the
house of Jacob, and princes of the house of |
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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; |
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 |
4:8: And thou, O tower of the flock, the
strong hold of the daughter of |
4:9: Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in
travail. |
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. |
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5:1: Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter
of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
5:6: And they shall waste the |
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. |
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. |
5:9: Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine
adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. |
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6:1: Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise,
contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. |
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 |
6:3: O my people, what have I done unto
thee? and wherein have I wearied
thee? testify against me. |
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. |
6:5: O my people, remember now what Balak
king of |
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? |
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? |
6:8: He hath shewed 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? |
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. |
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
7:7: Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will
wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. |
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. |
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. |
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