Micah
1:1The word of Jehovah that came to Micah
the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. 1:2Hear, ye peoples, all
of you: hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord
Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. 1:3For,
behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and
tread upon the high places of the earth. 1:4And the mountains shall
be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the
fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place. 1:5For 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? 1:6Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap
of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour
down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the
foundations thereof. 1:7And all her graven images shall be
beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her
idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered
them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return. 1:8For
this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a
wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches. 1:9For
her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto
the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. 1:10Tell it not in Gath,
weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust. 1:11Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in
nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the
wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof. 1:12For
the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come
down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem. 1:13Bind the chariot to
the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to
the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
1:14Therefore shalt thou give a parting
gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
unto the kings of Israel. 1:15I will yet bring unto thee, O
inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel
shall come even unto Adullam. 1:16Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair
for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for
they are gone into captivity from thee.
2:1Woe 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. 2:2And they covet fields,
and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and
his house, even a man and his heritage. 2:3Therefore thus saith
Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye
shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an
evil time. 2:4In that day shall they take up a
parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and
say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth
he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields. 2:5Therefore thou shalt have none that
shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah. 2:6Prophesy ye not, thus they
prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.
2:7Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is
the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do
good to him that walketh uprightly? 2:8But of late my people is risen up as an
enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by
securely as men averse from war. 2:9The women of my people
ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take
away my glory for ever. 2:10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not
your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a
grievous destruction. 2:11If a man walking in a spirit of
falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of
strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. 2:12I
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 a
flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason
of the multitude of men. 2:13The breaker is gone up before them:
they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out
thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head
of them.
3:1And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads
of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know
justice? 3:2ye who hate the good, and love the
evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off
their bones; 3:3who also eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in
pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 3:4Then
shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; yea, he will
hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil
in their doings. 3:5Thus saith Jehovah concerning the
prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry,
Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war
against him: 3:6Therefore it shall be night unto you,
that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall
not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall
be black over them. 3:7And the seers shall be put to shame,
and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for
there is no answer of God. 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by
the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto
Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 3:9Hear this, I pray you,
ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that
abhor justice, and pervert all equity. 3:10They build up Zion
with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 3:11The heads thereof
judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets
thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not
Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. 3:12Therefore 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 a forest.
4:1But in the latter days it shall come to
pass, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top
of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples
shall flow unto it. 4:2And many nations shall go and say, Come
ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah
from Jerusalem; 4:3and he will judge between many peoples,
and will decide concerning strong nations afar off: and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more. 4:4But they shall sit every man under his
vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the
mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it. 4:5For all the peoples
walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of
Jehovah our God for ever and ever. 4:6In that day, saith Jehovah, will I
assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away,
and that which I have afflicted; 4:7and I will make that which was lame a
remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Jehovah will
reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever. 4:8And
thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee
shall it come, yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the
daughter of Jerusalem. 4:9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is
there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken
hold of thee as of a woman in travail? 4:10Be in pain, and labor
to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt
thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt
come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah
redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 4:11And now many nations
are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye
see our desire upon Zion. 4:12But they know not the thoughts of
Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as
the sheaves to the threshing-floor. 4:13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;
for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou
shalt beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain unto
Jehovah, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
5:1Now shalt thou 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. 5:2But thou, Beth-lehem
Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of
thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose
goings forth are from of old, from everlasting. 5:3Therefore will he give
them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then
the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 5:4And
he shall stand, and shall feed his flock in the strength of
Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God: and they shall
abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. 5:5And
this man shall be our 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. 5:6And they shall waste
the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the
entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he
cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border. 5:7And
the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from
Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for
the sons of men. 5:8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among
the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of
the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go
through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to
deliver. 5:9Let thy hand be lifted up above thine
adversaries, and let all thine enemies be cut off. 5:10And it shall come to
pass in that day, saith Jehovah, that I will cut off thy horses out of the
midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots: 5:11and I will cut off the
cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strongholds. 5:12And
I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no
more soothsayers: 5:13and I will cut off thy graven images
and thy pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship
the work of thy hands; 5:14and I will pluck up thine Asherim out
of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities. 5:15And I will execute
vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearkened not.
6:1Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise,
contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 6:2Hear,
O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the
earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend
with Israel. 6:3O my people, what have I done unto
thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. 6:4For I
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the
house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 6:5O my
people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the
son of Beor answered him; remember from Shittim unto Gilgal, that
ye may know the righteous acts of Jehovah. 6:6Wherewith shall I come
before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before
him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? 6:7will Jehovah be pleased
with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for
the sin of my soul? 6:8He hath showed thee, O man, what is
good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love
kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God? 6:9The voice of Jehovah
crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear
ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 6:10Are there yet
treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure
that is abominable? 6:11Shall I be pure with wicked balances,
and with a bag of deceitful weights? 6:12For the rich men thereof are full of
violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue
is deceitful in their mouth. 6:13Therefore I also have smitten thee
with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins. 6:14Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied;
and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put
away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the
sword. 6:15Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap;
thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the
vintage, but shalt not drink the wine. 6:16For the statutes of
Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in
their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants
thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
7:1Woe is me! for I am as when they have
gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there
is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig. 7:2The
godly 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. 7:3Their hands are upon that which is evil
to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for
a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus
they weave it together. 7:4The best of them is as a brier; the
most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen,
even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity. 7:5Trust
ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of
thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 7:6For the son dishonoreth
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.
7:7But as for me, I will look unto
Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy:
when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a
light unto me. 7:9I will bear the indignation of Jehovah,
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. 7:10Then mine enemy shall see it, and
shame shall cover her who said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine
eyes shall see my desire upon her; now shall she be trodden down as
the mire of the streets. 7:11A day for building thy walls! in that
day shall the decree be far removed. 7:12In that day shall they come unto thee
from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River,
and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. 7:13Yet
shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the
fruit of their doings. 7:14Feed thy people with thy rod, the
flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst
of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 7:15As
in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto
them marvellous things. 7:16The nations shall see and be ashamed
of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears
shall be deaf. 7:17They shall lick the dust like a
serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out
of their close places; they shall come with fear unto Jehovah our God, and
shall be afraid because of thee. 7:18Who is a God like unto thee, that
pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of
his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth
in lovingkindness. 7:19He will again have compassion upon us;
he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins
into the depths of the sea. 7:20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob,
and the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our
fathers from the days of old.
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