SPACE 1/SPACE - Library 1 - Volume 1.iso/misc~1/343/micah

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                        MICAH 1
 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 Israel. What [is] the transgression of
Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of
Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem?
 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.
 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 Judah;
he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.
 1:10  Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the
house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
 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.
 1:12  For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good:
but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
 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.
 1:14  Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the
houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.
 1:15  Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of
Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
 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.

                        MICAH 2
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.

                        MICAH 3
 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?
 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;
 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.
 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 Israel his sin.
 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.
 3:10  They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with
iniquity.
 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.
 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.

                        MICAH 4
 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 mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 4:11  Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that
say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
 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.
 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.

                        MICAH 5
 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.
 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 Israel.
 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 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.
 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.
 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:
 5:11  And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw
down all thy strong holds:
 5:12  And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and
thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:
 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.
 5:14  And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee:
so will I destroy thy cities.
 5:15  And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the
heathen, such as they have not heard.

                        MICAH 6
 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 Israel.
 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 Moab
consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from
Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the
LORD.
 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 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?
 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.
 6:10  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house
of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
 6:11  Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and
with the bag of deceitful weights?
 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.
 6:13  Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee,
in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.
 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.
 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.
 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.

                        MICAH 7
 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.
 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.
 7:11  [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that
day shall the decree be far removed.
 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.
 7:13  Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of
them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
 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.
 7:15  According to the days of thy coming out of the land of
Egypt will I show unto him marvellous [things].
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.