| 1:1 |
The word of theJehovah Lord that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. |
| 1:2 |
Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GODbeJehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. |
| 1:3 |
For, behold, theJehovah 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 moltenmelted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place. |
| 1:6 |
Therefore I will make Samaria as ana heap of the field, and as theplaces plantingsfor ofplanting avineyards; vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discoveruncover the foundations thereof. |
| 1:7 |
And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate:; for of the hire of ana harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of ana harlot shall they return. |
| 1:8 |
For this will I waillament and howl,wail; I will go stripped and naked:; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a mourninglamentation like the ostriches. |
| 1:9 |
For her wounds are incurable:; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. |
| 1:10 |
Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth le Aphrahaphrah have I rolled myself in the dust. |
| 1:11 |
Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth ezel shall take from you the stay thereof. |
| 1:12 |
For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good:, because evil is come down from theJehovah Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem. |
| 1:16 |
Make thee bald, and pollcut theeoff thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. |
| 2:3 |
Therefore thus saith the LordJehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time. |
| 2:4 |
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We beare utterly spoiledruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields. |
| 2:5 |
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregationassembly of the LordJehovah. |
| 2:7 |
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the spiritSpirit of theJehovah Lord straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? |
| 2:10 |
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest:resting place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction. |
| 2:11 |
If a man walking in winda andspirit of 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 a flock in the midst of their pasture,; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. |
| 2:13 |
The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat:; and their king is passed on before them, and theJehovah Lord at the head of them. |
| 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 judgementjustice? |
| 3:2 |
ye 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 they flay their skin from off them, and break their bones: yea, theyand chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
| 3:4 |
Then shall they cry unto the LordJehovah, but he will not answer them:; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings. |
| 3:5 |
Thus saith theJehovah Lord concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him: |
| 3:7 |
And the seers shall be ashamedput to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips:; for there is no answer of God. |
| 3:8 |
But as for me, I truly am full of power by the spiritSpirit of the LordJehovah, and of judgementjudgment, 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 rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor judgementjustice, 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 LordJehovah, and say, Is not theJehovah Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. |
| 4:1 |
But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of theJehovahs LordS house shall be established inon the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it. |
| 4:2 |
And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LordJehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:. forFor out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of theJehovah Lord from Jerusalem,; |
| 4:3 |
and he shallwill judge between many peoples, and shallwill reprovedecide concerning strong nations afar off;: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up 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 theJehovah Lord of hosts hath spoken it. |
| 4:5 |
For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his god,; and we will walk in the name of theJehovah Lord our God for ever and ever. |
| 4:6 |
In that day, saith the LordJehovah, will I assemble her that haltethwhich is lame, and I will gather her that which is driven away, and her that which I have afflicted; |
| 4:7 |
and I will make her that haltedwhich was lame a remnant, and her that which was cast far off a strong nation: and theJehovah Lordwill shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever. |
| 4:8 |
And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come;, yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. |
| 4:10 |
Be in pain, and labourlabor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail:; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon;: there shalt thou be rescued; there shallwill theJehovah Lord redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. |
| 4:11 |
And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see itsour desire upon Zion. |
| 4:12 |
But they know not the thoughts of the LordJehovah, neither understand they his counsel:; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshingfloorthreshing floor. |
| 4:13 |
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion:; for I will make thinethy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass:; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples: and thouI shaltwill devote their gain unto the LordJehovah, 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. |
| 5:3 |
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she whichwho travaileth hath brought forth: then the residue 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 LordJehovah, in the majesty of the name of theJehovah 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 our peace:. whenWhen 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. |
| 5:7 |
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from the LordJehovah, as showers upon the grass;, that tarriethtarry not for man, nor waitethwait for the sons of men. |
| 5:8 |
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the 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 to deliver. |
| 5:9 |
Let thinethy hand be lifted up above thine adversaries, and let all thine enemies be cut off. |
| 5:10 |
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LordJehovah, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots: |
| 5:11 |
and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strong holds:strongholds. |
| 5:12 |
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thinethy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: |
| 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 the work of thinethy hands,; |
| 5:14 |
and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee:; and I will destroy thy cities. |
| 5:15 |
And I will execute vengeance in anger and furywrath upon the nations which hearkened not. |
| 6:1 |
Hear ye now what theJehovah Lord saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. |
| 6:2 |
Hear, O ye mountains, theJehovahs LordS controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth:; for theJehovah Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will pleadcontend with Israel. |
| 6:5 |
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulteddevised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; remember from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of the LordJehovah. |
| 6:6 |
Wherewith shall I come before the LordJehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? |
| 6:7 |
will theJehovah Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstbornfirst born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
| 6:8 |
He hath shewedshowed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth theJehovah Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercykindness, and to walk humbly with thy God? |
| 6:9 |
The voice of theJehovah Lord crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will 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 thea scant measure that is abominable? |
| 6:14 |
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt removeput away, but shalt not carry away safesave; and that which thou carriestsavest away will I give up to the sword. |
| 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 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 shouldmay make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof ana hissing;: and 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 grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the firstripefirst ripe fig. |
| 7:3 |
Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischiefevil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together. |
| 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 visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity. |
| 7:5 |
Trust ye not in a friend,neighbor; put ye not confidence in a guide:friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. |
| 7:6 |
For the son dishonourethdishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a mans enemies are the men of his own house. |
| 7:7 |
But as for me, I will look unto the LordJehovah; 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, theJehovah Lordwill shall be a light unto me. |
| 7:9 |
I will bear the indignation of the LordJehovah, because I have sinned against him;, until he plead my cause, and execute judgementjudgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. |
| 7:10 |
Then mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her; whichwho said unto me, Where is theJehovah Lord thy God? Mine eyes shall beholdsee my desire upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. |
| 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, and from mountain to mountain. |
| 7:14 |
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thinethy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. |
| 7:15 |
As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I shewshow unto himthem marvelousmarvellous things. |
| 7:16 |
The nations shall see and be ashamed of 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 come trembling out of their close places:; they shall come with fear unto theJehovah Lord our God, and shall be afraid because of thee. |
| 7:18 |
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth byover the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercylovingkindness. |
| 7:19 |
He will turn again and have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot:; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. |
| 7:20 |
Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercylovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. |