| 1:1 |
The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Mo′reshethMoresheth in the days of Jotham Ahaz and Hezeki′ahHezekiah kings of Judah which he saw concerning Samar′iaSamaria and Jerusalem |
| 1:2 |
Hear you peoples all of you; hearkenpay attention O earth and all that is in it; and let the Lord God be a witness against you the Lord from his holy temple |
| 1:3 |
For behold the Lord is coming forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth |
| 1:4 |
And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will besplit cleftopen like wax before the fire like waters poured down a steep place |
| 1:5 |
All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel What is the transgression of Jacob Is it not Samar′iaSamaria And what is the sinhigh ofplace the house of Judah Is it not Jerusalem |
| 1:6 |
Therefore I will make Samar′iaSamaria a heap in the open country a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations |
| 1:7 |
All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces all her hireswages shall be burned with fire and all her idols I will lay waste; for from the hirefee of a harlotprostitute she gathered them and to the hirefee of a harlotprostitute they shall return |
| 1:9 |
For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people to Jerusalem |
| 1:10 |
Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth le aph′rahaphrah roll yourselves in the dust |
| 1:11 |
Pass on your way inhabitants of Shaphir in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Za′ananZaanan do not come forthout; the wailinglamentation of Beth e′zelezel shall take away from you its standing place |
| 1:12 |
For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good because evildisaster has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem |
| 1:13 |
Harness the steeds to the chariots inhabitants of Lachish; youit werewas the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion for in you were found the transgressions of Israel |
| 1:14 |
Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Mo′reshethMoresheth gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel |
| 1:15 |
I will again bring a conqueror uponto you inhabitants of Mare′shahMareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam |
| 2:1 |
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil uponon their beds When the morning dawns they perform it because it is in the power of their hand |
| 2:2 |
They covet fields and seize them; and houses and take them away; they oppress a man and his house a man and his inheritance |
| 2:3 |
Therefore thus says the Lord: Beholdbehold against this family I am devising evildisaster from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily for it will be ana eviltime timeof disaster |
| 2:4 |
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and wailmoan withbitterly bitter lamentation and say We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me AmongTo ouran captorsapostate he dividesallots our fields |
| 2:7 |
Should this be said O house of Jacob IsHas the SpiritLord ofgrown the Lord impatient Are these his doingsdeeds Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly |
| 2:8 |
But youlately rise against my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from the peaceful from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war |
| 2:9 |
The women of my people you drive out from their pleasantdelightful houses; from their young children you take away my glorysplendor for everforever |
| 2:10 |
Arise and go for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction |
| 2:12 |
I will surely gatherassemble all of you O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold like a flock in its pasture a noisy multitude of men |
| 2:13 |
He who opens the breach willgoes go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate going out by it Their king willpasses pass on before them the Lord at their head |
| 3:2 |
you who hate the good and love the evil who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones; |
| 3:3 |
who eat the flesh of my people and flay their skin from off them and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a kettlepot like flesh in a caldroncauldron |
| 3:6 |
Therefore it shall be night to you without vision and darkness to you without divination The sun shall go down uponon the prophets and the day shall be black over them; |
| 3:9 |
Hear this you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel who abhordetest justice and pervertmake crooked all equitythat is straight |
| 3:10 |
who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wronginiquity |
| 3:11 |
Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for hirea price; its prophets divinepractice divination for money; yet they lean uponon the Lord and say Is not the Lord in the midst of us No evildisaster shall come upon us |
| 4:1 |
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains and it shall be raisedlifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it |
| 4:2 |
and many nations shall come and say: Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem |
| 4:3 |
He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide disputes for strong nations afarfar offaway; 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 moreanymore; |
| 4:4 |
but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and noneno one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken |
| 4:5 |
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forforever ever and ever |
| 4:6 |
In that day saysdeclares the Lord I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted; |
| 4:7 |
and the lame I will make the remnant; and those who were cast off a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and for evermoreforevermore |
| 4:8 |
And you O tower of the flock hill of the daughter of Zion to you shall it come the former dominion shall come thekingship kingdomfor of the daughter of Jerusalem |
| 4:9 |
Now why do you cry aloud Is there no king in you Has your counselor perished that pangspain have seized you like a woman in travaillabor |
| 4:10 |
Writhe and groan O daughter of Zion like a woman in travail;labor for now you shall go forthout from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon There you shall be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies |
| 4:11 |
Now many nations are assembled against you saying Let her be profaneddefiled and let our eyes gaze upon Zion |
| 4:12 |
But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor |
| 4:13 |
Arise and thresh O daughter of Zion for I will make your horn iron and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth |
| 5:1 |
Now youmuster areyour walledtroops aboutO withdaughter aof walltroops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike upon the cheekjudge theof rulerIsrael ofon Israelthe cheek |
| 5:2 |
But you O Bethlehem Eph′rathahEphrathah who are too little to be among the clans of Judah from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel whose origincoming forth is from of old from ancient days |
| 5:3 |
Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travaillabor has broughtgiven forthbirth; then the rest of his brethrenbrothers shall return to the people of Israel |
| 5:4 |
And he shall stand and feedshepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God And they shall dwell secure for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth |
| 5:5 |
And thishe shall be their peace whenWhen the Assyrian comes into our land and treads uponin our soilpalaces thatthen we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men; |
| 5:6 |
they shall ruleshepherd the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod withat theits drawn swordentrances; and theyhe shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border |
| 5:7 |
Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord like showers uponon the grass which tarrydelay not for mena man nor wait for the sonschildren of menman |
| 5:10 |
And in that day saysdeclares the Lord I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots; |
| 5:12 |
and I will cut off sorceries from your hand and you shall have no more soothsayerstellers of fortunes; |
| 5:13 |
and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands; |
| 5:14 |
and I will root out your Ashe′rimAsherah images from among you and destroy your cities |
| 5:15 |
And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance uponon the nations that did not obey |
| 6:2 |
Hear you mountains the controversyindictment of the Lord and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has aan controversyindictment withagainst his people and he will contend with Israel |
| 6:3 |
O my people what have I done to you InHow what have I wearied you Answer me |
| 6:4 |
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage;slavery and I sent before you Moses Aaron and Miriam |
| 6:5 |
O my people remember what Balak king of Moab devised and what Balaam the son of Be′orBeor answered him and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal that you may know the savingrighteous acts of the Lord |
| 6:7 |
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams with ten thousands of rivers of oil Shall I give my firstfirstborn born for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul |
| 6:8 |
He has showedtold you O man what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God |
| 6:9 |
The voice of the Lord cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear thyyour name: Hear Oof tribethe rod and assembly of thehim citywho appointed it |
| 6:10 |
Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is accursed |
| 6:13 |
Therefore I havestrike begunyou towith smitea yougrievous blow making you desolate because of your sins |
| 6:14 |
You shall eat but not be satisfied and there shall be hunger inwithin your inward partsyou; you shall put away but not savepreserve and what you savepreserve I will give to the sword |
| 6:16 |
For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of themy peoplespeople |
| 7:1 |
Woe is me For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered as when the vintagegrapes hashave been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat no first ripe fig whichthat my soul desires |
| 7:2 |
The godly man has perished from the earth and there is noneno one upright among menmankind; they all lie in wait for blood and each hunts histhe brotherother with a net |
| 7:3 |
Their hands are uponon what is evil to do it diligentlywell; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together |
| 7:4 |
The best of them is like a brier the most upright of them a thorn hedge The day of theiryour watchmen of theiryour punishment has come; now their confusion is at hand |
| 7:5 |
Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosomarms; |
| 7:7 |
But as for me I will look to 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 pleads my cause and executes judgment for me He will bring me forthout to the light; I shall beholdlook upon his deliverancevindication |
| 7:10 |
Then my enemy will see and shame will cover her who said to me Where is the Lord your God My eyes will gloatlook overupon her; now she will be troddentrampled down like the mire of the streets |
| 7:12 |
In that day they will come to you from Assyria toand the cities of Egypt and from Egypt to the River from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain |
| 7:13 |
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants for the fruit of their doingsdeeds |
| 7:14 |
Shepherd thyyour people with thyyour staff the flock of thyyour inheritance who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feedgraze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old |
| 7:17 |
they shall lick the dust like a serpent like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God and they shall be in fear because of theeyou |
| 7:18 |
Who is a God like theeyou pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance He does not retain his anger forforever ever because he delights in steadfast love |
| 7:19 |
He will again have compassion uponon us; he will tread our iniquities underunderfoot footYou Thouwill wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea |
| 7:20 |
ThouYou wiltwill show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham as thouyou hasthave sworn to our fathers from the days of old |