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{{verse|1|1}} The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite

in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which

 

{{verse|1|2}} Hear, 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

 

{{verse|1|3}} For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his

place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the

 

{{verse|1|4}} And the mountains shall be melted under him, and

the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters

 

{{verse|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

 

{{verse|1|6}} Therefore 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

 

{{verse|1|7}} And all her graven images shall be beaten to

{{verse|1|8}} For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and

naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation

 

{{verse|1|9}} For her wounds are incurable; for it

is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people,

 

{{verse|1|10}} Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all:

 

{{verse|1|11}} Pass

away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the

inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel

 

{{verse|1|12}} For the inhabitant

of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down

 

{{verse|1|13}} Bind the chariot

to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the

beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions

 

{{verse|1|14}} Therefore shalt thou give a

parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a

 

{{verse|1|15}} I will yet

{{verse|2|1}} Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon

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

 

{{verse|2|2}} And they covet fields,

and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress

 

{{verse|2|3}} Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I

devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks,

 

{{verse|2|4}} In 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

 

{{verse|2|5}} Therefore

thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the

 

{{verse|2|6}} Prophesy ye not, [thus] they

prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not

 

{{verse|2|7}} Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit

of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do

 

{{verse|2|8}} But of late my people

is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment

 

{{verse|2|9}} The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses;

 

{{verse|2|10}} Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place;

because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous

 

{{verse|2|11}} If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do

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

 

{{verse|2|12}} I

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

 

{{verse|2|13}} The

{{verse|3|1}} And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and

rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know

 

{{verse|3|2}} ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who

pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off

 

{{verse|3|3}} who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay

{{verse|3|4}} Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer

them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time,

 

{{verse|3|5}} Thus

err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso

putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against

 

{{verse|3|6}} Therefore 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

 

{{verse|3|7}} And the seers shall be put to

shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover

 

{{verse|3|8}} But 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

 

{{verse|3|9}} Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the

house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor

 

{{verse|3|10}} They build up Zion with

 

{{verse|3|11}} The heads thereof

the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon

Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil

 

{{verse|3|12}} Therefore shall Zion for your sake be

mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of

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

 

{{verse|4|2}} And many nations shall go 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

 

{{verse|4|3}} and

plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall

not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war

 

{{verse|4|4}} But they shall sit every man under his vine and

under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the

 

{{verse|4|5}} For all the

peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk

 

{{verse|4|6}} In 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

 

{{verse|4|7}} and 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

 

{{verse|4|8}} And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the

{{verse|4|9}} Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee,

is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee

 

{{verse|4|10}} Be in pain, and labor to bring

field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be

rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine

 

{{verse|4|11}} And now many nations are assembled against thee,

that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire]

 

{{verse|4|12}} But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah,

neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them

 

{{verse|4|13}} Arise and thresh,

{{verse|5|1}} Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of

troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the

 

{{verse|5|2}} But thou,

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

 

{{verse|5|3}} Therefore 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

 

{{verse|5|4}} And 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

 

{{verse|5|5}} And 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

 

{{verse|5|6}} And they shall

in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the

Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth

 

{{verse|5|7}} And the remnant of Jacob shall be in

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

 

{{verse|5|9}} Let thy hand be lifted up above thine

 

{{verse|5|10}} And 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

 

{{verse|5|11}} and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and

 

{{verse|5|12}} And I will cut off

witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no [more]

 

{{verse|5|13}} and I will cut off thy graven images and thy

pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship

 

{{verse|5|14}} and I will pluck up thine Asherim

 

{{verse|5|15}} And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations

 

{{verse|6|1}} Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou

 

{{verse|6|2}} Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring

foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with

 

{{verse|6|3}} O my people,

what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee?

 

{{verse|6|4}} For I brought thee up out of the land

of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I

 

{{verse|6|5}} O my people,

remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam

the son of Beor answered him; [remember] from Shittim unto

 

{{verse|6|6}} Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the

high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with

 

{{verse|6|7}} will 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

 

{{verse|6|8}} He hath showed thee, O man, what is good;

and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to

 

{{verse|6|9}} The voice

of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and [the man of] wisdom will

 

{{verse|6|10}} Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the

 

{{verse|6|11}} Shall I

be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful

 

{{verse|6|12}} For the rich men thereof are full of violence,

and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue

 

{{verse|6|13}} Therefore I also have

smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate

 

{{verse|6|14}} Thou 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

 

{{verse|6|15}} Thou 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

 

{{verse|6|16}} For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the

{{verse|7|1}} Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the

summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is

 

{{verse|7|2}} The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none

upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt

 

{{verse|7|3}} Their hands are upon

the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he

uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it

 

{{verse|7|4}} The best of them is as a brier; the most upright

is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy

 

{{verse|7|5}} Trust

ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep

 

{{verse|7|6}} For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up

 

{{verse|7|7}} But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for

 

{{verse|7|8}} Rejoice not

against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit

 

{{verse|7|9}} I will bear

until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will

bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his

 

{{verse|7|10}} Then 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

 

{{verse|7|11}} A day for building thy

 

{{verse|7|12}} In

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,

 

{{verse|7|13}} Yet shall the land be

desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of

 

{{verse|7|14}} Feed 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

 

{{verse|7|15}} As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land

 

{{verse|7|16}} The

things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close

places; they shall come with fear unto Jehovah our God, and

 

{{verse|7|18}} Who is a God like unto

 

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