| 1:1 |
The word of the Lord that came to Micah the MorasthiteMorashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. |
| 1:2 |
Hear, ye peoples, all yeof peopleyou; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GodGODbe be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. |
| 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. |
| 1:6 |
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as the 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 theher graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all theher hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all theher idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, andhath theyshe shallgathered returnthem, toand unto the hire of an harlot shall they return. |
| 1:8 |
ThereforeFor Ithis will I wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragonsjackals, and a mourning aslike the owlsostriches. |
| 1:9 |
For her woundwounds isare incurable;: for it is come even unto Judah; heit isreacheth come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. |
| 1:10 |
DeclareTell ye it not atin Gath, weep ye not at all: inat theBeth housele of Aphrah rollhave thyselfI rolled myself in the dust. |
| 1:11 |
Pass ye away, thouO inhabitant of SaphirShaphir, havingin thynakedness and shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan cameis not come forth; in the mourningwailing of Bethezel;Beth heezel shall receivetake offrom you histhe standingstay thereof. |
| 1:12 |
For the inhabitant of Maroth waitedwaiteth carefullyanxiously for good: butbecause evil cameis come down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem. |
| 1:13 |
OBind thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beaststeed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she iswas 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 presentsa parting gift to MoreshethgathMoresheth gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a liedeceitful tothing unto the kings of Israel. |
| 1:15 |
YetI will Iyet bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah:, hehim that shall comepossess untothee: Adullam the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam. |
| 1:16 |
Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delicatedelight: children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. |
| 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 takeseize them by violence; and houses, and take them away: soand 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 gowalk haughtily:; for thisit time is an evil time. |
| 2:4 |
In that day shall onethey take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hathchangeth changed the portion of my people: how hathdoth he removedremove it from me! turningto awaythe rebellious he hathdivideth divided our fields. |
| 2:5 |
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast athe cordline by lot in the congregation of the Lord. |
| 2:6 |
Prophesy ye not, saythus they to them that prophesy:. theyThey shall not prophesy to them,these: thatreproaches they shall not take shamedepart. |
| 2:7 |
OShall thouit thatbe artsaid, namedO the house of Jacob, isIs the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? doDo not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? |
| 2:8 |
EvenBut of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pullstrip off the robe withfrom off 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 young children have ye takentake away my glory for ever. |
| 2:10 |
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because itof isuncleanness polluted,that it shall destroy youdestroyeth, even with a soregrievous destruction. |
| 2:11 |
If a man walking in thewind 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 thea flock in the midst of their fold:pasture, they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. |
| 2:13 |
The breaker is comegone up before them: they have broken up,forth and have passed throughon to the gate, and are gone out by itthereat: and their king shallis passpassed on before them, and the Lord onat the head of them. |
| 3:1 |
And I said, Hear, I pray you, Oye heads of Jacob, and yerulers princes of the house of Israel;: Isis it not for you to know judgmentjudgement? |
| 3:2 |
Whowho hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
| 3:3 |
Whowho also eat the flesh of my people,; and they flay their skin from off them;, and they break their bones: yea, andthey 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 hearanswer them: yea, he will even hide his face from them at that time, according as they have behavedwrought themselvesevil ill in their doings. |
| 3:5 |
Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people to err,; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and hewhoso that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.: |
| 3:6 |
Therefore nightit shall be night unto you, that ye shall not have ano vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down overupon the prophets, and the day shall be darkblack over them. |
| 3:7 |
ThenAnd shall the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded:; yea, they shall all cover their lips;: for there is no answer of God. |
| 3:8 |
But I truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgmentjudgement, 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 princesrulers of the house of Israel, that abhor judgmentjudgement, and pervert all equity. |
| 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 amongin the midst of us? noneno evil canshall 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 thea forest. |
| 4:1 |
But in the lastlatter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the LordS house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoplepeoples shall flow unto it. |
| 4:2 |
And many nations shall come,go and say, Come ye, 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 theout lawof Zion shall go forth ofthe Zionlaw, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem., |
| 4:3 |
Andand he shall judge amongbetween many peoplepeoples, and rebukeshall reprove 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. |
| 4:5 |
For all peoplethe peoples 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 outaway, and her that I have afflicted; |
| 4:7 |
Andand 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 stronghill hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come; yea, even the firstformer dominion; shall come, the kingdom shallof come to the daughter of Jerusalem. |
| 4:9 |
Now why dost thou cry out aloud? isIs there no king in thee?, is thy counsellor perished?, forthat pangs have taken hold of thee as of 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 gocome even tounto Babylon; there shalt thou be deliveredrescued; there shall the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. |
| 4:11 |
NowAnd alsonow many nations are gatheredassembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye looksee its desire upon Zion. |
| 4:12 |
But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shallhath gathergathered them as the sheaves intoto the floorthreshingfloor. |
| 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 peoplepeoples: and Ithou willshalt consecratedevote their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. |
| 5:1 |
Now 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. |
| 5:2 |
But thou, BethlehemBeth Ephratahlehem Ephrathah, thoughwhich thouart little to be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall heone come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth haveare 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 remnantresidue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. |
| 5:4 |
And he shall stand, and shall feed his flock 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 theour 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: thusand he shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our bordersborder. |
| 5:7 |
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoplepeoples 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 Gentilesnations, in the midst of many peoplepeoples, 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 there is none canto deliver. |
| 5:9 |
ThineLet thine hand shall be lifted up uponabove thine adversaries, and let 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 |
Andand I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strong holds: |
| 5:13 |
Thyand gravenI images also will I cut off, thy graven images and thy standingpillars images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands., |
| 5:14 |
Andand I will pluck up thythine grovesAsherim out of the midst of thee: soand I will I destroy thy cities. |
| 5:15 |
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen,nations suchwhich ashearkened they have not heard. |
| 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 ye mountains, the LordsLordS controversy, and ye strongenduring foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. |
| 6:4 |
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servantsbondage; 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; remember from Shittim unto Gilgal;, that ye may know the righteousnessrighteous acts of the Lord. |
| 6:7 |
Willwill 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? |
| 6:9 |
The Lords voice of the Lord crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shallwill see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. |
| 6:11 |
Shall I countbe them pure with the wicked balances, and with thea bag of deceitful weights? |
| 6:13 |
Therefore I also willhave Ismitten make thee sickwith ina smitinggrievous thee,wound; inI makinghave made thee desolate because of thy sins. |
| 6:14 |
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy castinghumiliation down shall be in the midst of thee;: and thou shalt take holdremove, but shalt not delivercarry away safe; and that which thou deliverestcarriest away 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 sweetthe winevintage, but shalt not drink the 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:; thereforeand ye shall bear the reproach of my people. |
| 7:1 |
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleaningsgrape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat:; my soul desireddesireth the firstripe fruitfig. |
| 7:2 |
The goodgodly 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 |
ThatTheir theyhands mayare doupon that which is evil withto bothdo handsit earnestly,diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge askethis ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his mischievous desiresoul: sothus they wrapweave it uptogether. |
| 7:4 |
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharperworse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, andeven thy visitation, comethis come; now shall be their perplexity. |
| 7:7 |
ThereforeBut as for me, I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. |
| 7:9 |
I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him,; until he plead my cause, and execute judgmentjudgement 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? mineMine eyes shall behold her:; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. |
| 7:11 |
InA the day thatfor building thy walls! are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed. |
| 7:12 |
In that day alsoshall hethey shall come evenunto to thee, from Assyria, and from the fortifiedcities citiesof Egypt, and from theEgypt fortress even to the riverRiver, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. |
| 7:13 |
NotwithstandingYet shall 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,forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. |
| 7:15 |
AccordingAs toin the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellousmarvelous things. |
| 7:16 |
The nations shall see and be confoundedashamed atof 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,; like crawling things of the earth they shall movecome trembling out of their holesclose like worms of the earthplaces: they shall become afraidwith offear unto the Lord our God, and shall fearbe afraid because of thee. |
| 7:19 |
He will turn again, heand will have compassion upon us; he will subduetread our iniquities; under foot: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. |