| 1:1 |
The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Moreshite — what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. |
| 1:2 |
Listen, all you peoples; pay attention, earth and everyone in it! The Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord, from Hishis holy temple. |
| 1:3 |
Look, the Lord is leaving Hishis place and coming down to trample the heights of the earth. |
| 1:4 |
The mountains will melt beneath Himhim, and the valleys will split apart, like wax near a fire, like water cascading down a mountainside. |
| 1:9 |
For her wound is incurable and has reached even Judah; it has approached themy gatepeople’s ofcity my peoplegate, as far as Jerusalem. |
| 1:13 |
Harness the horses to the chariot, you residents of Lachish. This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion, because Israel’s acts of rebellion can be traced to you. |
| 2:4 |
In that day one will take up a taunt against you, and lament mournfully, saying, “We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How Hehe removes it from me! He allots our fields to traitors.” |
| 2:7 |
House of Jacob, should it be asked, “Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient? Are these the things Hehe does?” Don’t Mymy words bring good to the one who walks uprightly? |
| 2:8 |
But recently Mymy people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war. |
| 2:9 |
You force the women of Mymy people out of their comfortable homes, and you take Mymy blessing from their children forever. |
| 2:10 |
Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest, because defilement brings destruction — a grievous destruction! |
| 2:11 |
If a man of wind comes and inventsutters empty lies: — “I will preach to you about wine and beer,”” — he would be just the preacher for this people! |
| 2:12 |
I will indeed gather all of you, Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the middle of its foldpasture. It will be noisy with people. |
| 2:13 |
One who breaks open the way will advance before them; they will break out, pass through the city gate, and leave by it. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord as their leader. |
| 3:4 |
Then they will cry out to the Lord, but Hehe will not answer them. He will hide Hishis face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed. |
| 3:6 |
Therefore, it will be night for you — without visions; it will grow dark for you — without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them. |
| 3:11 |
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for moneysilver. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying, “Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.” |
| 3:12 |
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the hill of the temple’s mountmountain will be a high thicket. |
| 4:2 |
and many nations will come and say, “Come, let’s us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about Hishis ways so we may walk in Hishis paths.” For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. |
| 4:3 |
He will settle disputes among many peoples and provide arbitration for strong nations that are far away. They will beat their swords into plows, and their spears into pruning knives. Nation will not take up the sword against nation, and they will never again train for war. |
| 4:4 |
But each manperson will sit under his grapevine and under his fig tree with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the Lord of HostsArmies has promisedspoken. this. |
| 4:5 |
Though all the peoples each walk in the name of their own gods, we will walk in the name of Yahwehthe Lord our God forever and ever. |
| 4:6 |
On that day — this is the Lord’s declaration — I will assemble the lame and gather the scattered, those I have injured. |
| 4:7 |
I will make the lame into a remnant, those far removed into a strong nation. Then the Lord will rulereign over them in Mount Zion from this time on and forever. |
| 4:8 |
And you, watchtower for the flock, fortified hill of Daughter Zion, the former rule will come to you,; sovereignty will come to Daughter Jerusalem. |
| 4:10 |
Writhe and cry out, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the powergrasp of your enemies! |
| 4:12 |
But they do not know the Lord’s intentions or understand Hishis plan, that Hehe has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor. |
| 4:13 |
Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will make your horns iron and your hooves bronze, so you can crush many peoples. Then you will set apart their plunder tofor the Lord for destruction, their wealth tofor the Lord of all the whole earth. |
| 5:2 |
Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are small among the clans of Judah; Oneone will come from you to be ruler over Israel for Meme. His origin is from antiquity, from eternityancient times. |
| 5:3 |
Therefore, HeIsrael will abandonbe themabandoned until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of Histhe ruler’s brothers will return to the people of Israel. |
| 5:4 |
He will stand and shepherd them in the strength of Yahwehthe Lord, in the majestic name of Yahwehthe HisLord his God. They will live securely, for then Hishis greatness will extend to the ends of the earth. |
| 5:6 |
They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with a drawn blade. So Hehe will rescue us from Assyria when it invades our land, when it marches against our territory. |
| 5:10 |
In that day — this is the Lord’s declaration — I will remove your horses from you and wreck your chariots. |
| 5:13 |
I will remove your carved images and sacred pillars from you so that you will notno bowlonger downworship again to the work of your hands. |
| 5:15 |
I will take vengeance in anger and wrath against the nations that have not obeyed Meme. |
| 6:1 |
Now listen to what the Lord is saying: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voicecomplaint. |
| 6:2 |
Listen to the Lord’s lawsuit, you mountains and enduring foundations of the earth, because the Lord has a case against Hishis people, and Hehe will argue it against Israel. |
| 6:3 |
My people, what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Testify against Meme! |
| 6:5 |
My people, remember what King Balak king of Moab proposed, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from the Acacia Grove to Gilgal so that you may acknowledge the Lord’s righteous acts. |
| 6:6 |
What should I bring before the Lord when I come to bow before God on high? Should I come before Himhim with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? |
| 6:7 |
Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousand streams of oil? Should I give my firstborn for my transgression, the childoffspring of my body for my own sin? |
| 6:8 |
Mankind, Hehe has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God. |
| 6:9 |
The voice of Yahwehthe Lord calls out to the city (and it is wise to fear Youryour name): “Pay attention to the rod and the Oneone who ordained it. |
| 6:16 |
The statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house have been observed; you have followed their policies. Therefore, I will make you a desolate place and the city’s residents an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of Mymy people.” |
| 7:1 |
How sad for me! For I am like one who — when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest — finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave. |
| 7:2 |
GodlyFaithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net. |
| 7:9 |
Because I have sinned against Himhim, I must endure the Lord’s ragefury until Hehe argueschampions my casecause and establishes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see Hishis salvation. |
| 7:14 |
Shepherd Youryour people with Youryour staff, the flock that is Youryour possession. They live alone in a woodland surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in ancient times. |
| 7:17 |
They will lick the dust like a snake; they will come trembling out of their hiding places like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will tremble in the presence of Yahwehthe Lord our God; they will stand in awe of Youyou. |
| 7:18 |
Who is a God like Youyou, removingforgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of Hishis inheritance? He does not hold on to Hishis anger forever, because Hehe delights in faithful love. |
| 7:19 |
He will again have compassion on us; Hehe will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. |
| 7:20 |
You will show loyalty to Jacob and faithful love to Abraham, as Youyou swore to our fathersancestors from days long ago. |