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{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Micah

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
which
came
to
Micah
the Morashtite,
in
the
days
of
Jotham,
Ahaz,
and
Hezekiah,
kings
of
Judah:
his vision
about
Samaria
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Give ear,
you
peoples,
all
of
you;
give
attention,
O
earth
and
everything
in
it:
let
the
Lord
God
be
witness
against
you,
the
Lord
from
his
holy
Temple.
\VS{3}For
see,
the
Lord
is
coming
out
from
his
place,
and
will
come
down, stepping
on
the
high
places
of
the
earth.
\VS{4}And
the
mountains
will
be turned
to
water
under
him,
and
the deep
valleys
will
be
broken
open,
like
wax
before
the
fire,
like
waters
flowing
down
a slope.
\VS{5}All
this
is
because
of
the wrongdoing
of
Jacob
and
the
sins
of
the children
of
Israel.
What
is
the wrongdoing
of
Jacob?
is
it
not
Samaria?
and
what
are
the
high
places
of
Judah?
are
they
not
Jerusalem?
\VS{6}So
I
will
make
Samaria
into
a
field
and
the plantings
of
a vine-garden:
I
will send
its
stones falling
down
into
the
valley, uncovering
its bases.
\VS{7}And
all
her pictured
images
will
be hammered
into bits,
and
all
the payments
for
her loose ways
will
be
burned
with
fire,
and
all
the
images
of
her gods
I
will
make
waste:
for
with
the price
of
a loose woman
she got
them
together,
and
as
the price
of
a loose woman
will
they
be given
back.
\VS{8}For
this
I
will be full
of
sorrow
and give cries
of grief;
I
will go uncovered
and unclothed:
I
will give cries
of grief
like
the
jackals
and
will be
in
sorrow
like
the
ostriches.
\VS{9}For
her
wounds may
not
be made well:
for
it
has
come
even
to
Judah, stretching
up
to
the doorway
of
my
people,
even
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}Give
no
word
of it
in
Gath,
let there
be
no
weeping
at
all:
at
Beth-le-aphrah
be rolling
in
the
dust.
\VS{11}Be uncovered
and
go
away,
you
who
are
living
in
Shaphir:
the
one
living
in
Zaanan
has
not
come
out
of
her town;
Beth-ezel
is
taken
away
from
its base,
even
from
its resting-place.
\VS{12}For
the
one
living
in
Maroth
is waiting
for
good:
for
evil
has
come
down
from
the
Lord
to
the doorways
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}Let
the war-carriage
be yoked
to
the quick-running horse,
you
who
are
living
in
Lachish:
she
was
the
first cause
of
sin
to
the
daughter
of
Zion;
for
the wrongdoings
of
Israel
were seen
in
you.
\VS{14}For
this
cause
give
a
parting offering
to
Moresheth-gath:
the
daughter
of
Achzib
will
be
a deceit
to
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{15}Even
now
will
the taker
of
your heritage
come
to
you,
you
who
are
living
in
Mareshah:
the
glory
of
Israel
will
come
to destruction
for
ever.
\VS{16}Let
your
head
be
uncovered
and
your
hair
cut
off
in
sorrow
for
the
children
of
your
delight:
let
the
hair
be pulled
from
your
head
like
an eagle's;
for
they
have been
taken
away
from
you
as prisoners.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A curse
on
the designers
of
evil,
working
on
their
beds!
in
the
morning
light
they
do
it,
because
it
is
in
their
power.
\VS{2}They
have
a
desire
for
fields
and
take
them
by
force;
and
for
houses
and
take
them
away:
they
are cruel
to
a
man
and
his
family, even
to
a
man
and
his
heritage.
\VS{3}For
this cause
the
Lord
has
said,
See,
against
this
family
I
am purposing
an
evil
from
which
you
will
not
be able
to
take
your
necks
away,
and
you
will
be weighted
down
by
it;
for
it
is
an
evil
time.
\VS{4}In
that
day
this
saying
will
be
said
about
you,
and
this song
of grief
will
be made:
The heritage
of
my
people
is measured
out,
and there
is
no
one
to
give
it back;
those
who
have made
us prisoners
have
taken
our
fields
from
us,
and complete destruction
has come
to
us.
\VS{5}For
this
cause
you
will
have
no
one
to
make
the decision
by
the measuring
line
in
the meeting
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Let
not words
like
these
be
dropped,
they say:
Shame
and
the curse
will
not come
to
the family
of Jacob!
\VS{7}Is
the
Lord quickly
made angry?
are
these
his
doings?
do
not
his
words
do
good
to
his
people Israel?
\VS{8}As
for
you,
you have
become haters
of those
who
were
at peace
with
you:
you
take
the
clothing
of those
who
go
by without fear,
and
make
them prisoners
of
war.
\VS{9}The
women
of
my
people
you
have
been
driving
away
from
their dearly loved
children;
from
their young
ones
you
are
taking
my glory
for
ever.
\VS{10}Up!
and
go;
for
this
is
not
your
rest:
because
it
has
been
made
unclean,
the destruction ordered
will
come
on
you.
\VS{11}If
a
man
came
with
a
false
spirit
of
deceit, saying,
I
will
be
a
prophet
to
you
of
wine
and
strong
drink:
he
would
be
the sort
of
prophet
for
this
people.
\VS{12}I
will certainly
make
all
of
you, O
Jacob, come
together;
I
will
get
together
the
rest
of
Israel;
I
will
put
them
together
like
the
sheep
in
their circle:
like
a
flock
in
their green field;
they
will
be
full
of
the noise
of
men.
\VS{13}The opener
of
the
way
will
go
up
before
them: forcing
their
way
out
they
will
go
on
to
the doorway
and
out
through
it:
their
king
will
go
on
before
them,
and
the
Lord
at
their
head.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
I
said,
Give ear,
now,
you
heads
of
Jacob
and
rulers
of
the
people
of
Israel:
is
it
not
for
you
to
have
knowledge
of
what
is
right?
\VS{2}You
who
are haters
of
good
and
lovers
of
evil, pulling
off
their
skin
from
them
and
their
flesh
from
their
bones;
\VS{3}Like
meat
they
take
the
flesh
of
my
people
for
their
food, skinning
them
and crushing
their
bones, yes, cutting
them
up
as
if
for
the
pot,
like
flesh
inside
the cooking-pot.
\VS{4}Then
they
will
be
crying
to
the
Lord
for
help,
but
he
will
not
give
them
an
answer: yes,
he
will keep
his
face veiled
from
them
at
that
time,
because
their acts
have
been
evil.
\VS{5}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
prophets
by
whom
my
people
have
been
turned
from
the right
way;
who, biting
with
their
teeth,
say,
Peace;
and
if
anyone
puts
nothing
in
their
mouths
they
make ready
for
war
against
him.
\VS{6}For
this cause
it
will
be
night
for
you, without
a
vision;
and
it
will
be
dark
for
you, without knowledge
of
the future;
the
sun
will
go
down
over
the
prophets,
and
the
day
will
be
black
over
them.
\VS{7}And
the
seers
will
be
shamed,
and
the
readers
of
the future
will
be
at
a loss,
all
of
them covering
their lips;
for
there
is
no
answer
from
God.
\VS{8}But
I
truly
am
full
of
the
spirit
of
the
Lord,
with
power
of judging
and
with
strength
to
make clear
to
Jacob
his wrongdoing
and
to
Israel
his
sin.
\VS{9}Then
give ear
to
this,
you
heads
of
the children
of
Jacob,
you
rulers
of
the children
of
Israel, hating
what
is
right, twisting
what
is
straight.
\VS{10}They
are
building
up
Zion
with
blood,
and
Jerusalem
with evil-doing.
\VS{11}Its
heads
take rewards
for
judging,
and
the
priests
take
payment
for
teaching,
and
the
prophets
get
silver
for reading
the future:
but
still, supporting
themselves
on
the
Lord,
they
say,
Is
not
the
Lord
among
us?
no
evil
will
overtake
us.
\VS{12}For
this
reason,
Zion
will
be ploughed
like
a
field
because
of
you,
and
Jerusalem
will
become
a mass
of broken walls,
and
the
mountain
of
the
house
like
a
high
place
in
the
woods.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
in
the
last
days
it
will
come
about
that
the
mountain
of
the Lord's
house
will
be
placed
on
the
top
of
the
mountains,
and
be
lifted
up
over
the
hills;
and
peoples
will
be flowing
to
it.
\VS{2}And
a number
of
nations
will
go
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
give
us knowledge
of
his
ways
and
we
will
be guided
by
his
word:
for
from
Zion
the
law
will
go
out,
and
the
word
of
the
Lord
from
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
he
will
be
judge
between
great
peoples,
and
strong
nations
far
away
will
be
ruled
by
his
decisions;
their
swords
will
be hammered
into plough-blades
and
their
spears
into vine-knives:
nations
will
no
longer
be lifting
up
their
swords
against
one
another,
and knowledge
of
war
will
have
gone
for
ever.
\VS{4}But
every
man
will
be
seated
under
his
vine
and
under
his fig-tree,
and
no
one
will
be
a
cause
of
fear
to
them:
for
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said
it.
\VS{5}For
all
the
peoples
will
be walking,
every
one
in
the
name
of
his
god,
and
we
will
be walking
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
our
God
for
ever
and
ever.
\VS{6}In
that
day,
says
the
Lord,
I
will get
together
her
who goes
with uncertain steps,
I
will get
together
her
who
has
been sent
away,
and
her
on
whom
I
have sent
evil;
\VS{7}And
I
will
make
her
whose steps
were uncertain
a small band,
and
her
who
was feeble
a
strong
nation:
and
the
Lord
will
be
their
King
in
Mount
Zion
from
now
and
for
ever.
\VS{8}And
you,
O
tower
of
the
flock, Ophel
of
the
daughter
of
Zion,
to
you
it
will
come,
even
the
earlier
authority,
the
kingdom
of
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}Now
why
are
you
crying
so
loudly?
is
there
no
king
in
you?
has
destruction come
on
your wise helper?
so
that pains
have
taken
you like
the pains
of
a woman
in
childbirth:
\VS{10}Be
in pain,
make sounds
of grief,
O
daughter
of
Zion,
like
a
woman
in
childbirth:
for
now
you
will
go
out
of
the
town,
living
in
the open
country,
and
will
come
even
to
Babylon;
there
you
will
have salvation;
there
the
Lord
will
make
you
free
from
the
hands
of
your haters.
\VS{11}And
now
a number
of
nations
have come
together
against
you,
and
they
say,
Let
her
be made unclean
and
let
our
eyes
see
the fate
of
Zion.
\VS{12}But
they
have
no
knowledge
of
the
thoughts
of
the
Lord,
their
minds
are
not able
to
see
his
purpose:
for
he
has got
them
together
like stems
of grain
to
the crushing-floor.
\VS{13}Up!
and
let
the
grain
be
crushed,
O
daughter
of
Zion,
for
I
will
make
your
horn
iron
and
your feet brass,
and
a number
of
peoples
will
be broken
by
you,
and
you
will
give
up
their increase
to
the
Lord
and
their
wealth
to
the
Lord
of
all
the
earth.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
you
will
give
yourselves deep wounds
for grief;
they
will
put
up
a wall round
us:
they
will
give
the judge
of
Israel
a blow
on
the face
with
a rod.
\VS{2}And
you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah,
the least
among
the
families
of Judah,
out
of
you
one
will
come
to
me
who
is
to
be ruler
in
Israel;
whose
going
out
has been purposed
from
time past,
from
the eternal days.
\VS{3}For
this
cause
he
will give
them
up
till
the
time
when
she
who
is
with child
has given birth:
then
the rest
of
his brothers
will come back
to
the children
of Israel.
\VS{4}And
he
will
take
his
place
and
give food
to
his flock
in
the strength
of
the Lord,
in
the glory
of
the name
of
the Lord
his God;
and
their resting-place
will
be
safe:
for
now
he
will
be great
to
the ends
of
the
earth.
\VS{5}And
this
will
be
our peace:
when
the Assyrian
comes
into
our
country
and
his feet
are
in
our
land,
then
we
will
put
up
against
him seven keepers
of
the flocks
and eight chiefs
among men.
\VS{6}And
they
will make
waste
the
land
of Assyria
with
the sword,
and
the
land
of Nimrod
with
the edge
of
the sword:
he
will
give
us salvation
from
the Assyrian
when
he
comes
into
our country,
when
his feet
come
inside
the limit
of
our
land.
\VS{7}And
the
rest
of
Jacob
will
be
among
the mass
of
peoples
like dew
from
the Lord,
like showers
on
the grass,
which
may
not
be kept back
by
man,
or
be waiting
for
the sons
of
men.
\VS{8}And
the rest
of Jacob
will
be
among
the nations,
in
the middle
of
the mass
of peoples,
like
a lion
among
the beasts
of
the woods,
like
a young lion
among
the flocks
of sheep: if
he goes
through,
they
will
be crushed
under foot
and pulled
to bits,
and
there
will
be
no saviour.
\VS{9}Your hand
is lifted
up against
those
who
are against
you,
and
all
your haters
will
be
cut
off.
\VS{10}And
it
will come
about
in
that day, says
the Lord,
that
I
will take
away
your horses
from
you,
and
will give
your war-carriages
to destruction:
\VS{11}I
will
have
the towns
of
your land
cut
off
and all
your strong places pulled
down:
\VS{12}I
will
put
an end
to
your use
of secret arts,
and
you
will
have
no
more readers
of signs:
\VS{13}And I will have
your images
and
your pillars cut off
from
you;
and
you will no longer give worship to
the work
of
your hands.
\VS{14}I
will
have
your Asherahs pulled up
from
among
you:
and
I
will send destruction
on
your images.
\VS{15}And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
now
to
the words
of
the
Lord:
Up! put forward
your cause
before
the
mountains,
let
your
voice
be sounding
among
the
hills.
\VS{2}Give ear,
O
you
mountains,
to
the Lord's
cause,
and
take note,
you bases
of
the
earth:
for
the
Lord
has
a
cause
against
his
people,
and
he
will
take
it
up
with
Israel.
\VS{3}O
my
people,
what have
I
done
to
you?
how have
I been
a weariness
to
you?
give
answer against
me.
\VS{4}For
I
took
you
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
and
made
you
free
from
the prison-house;
I
sent
before
you
Moses,
Aaron,
and
Miriam.
\VS{5}O
my
people,
keep
in
mind
now
what
was designed
by
Balak,
king
of
Moab,
and
the
answer
which
Balaam,
son
of
Beor,
gave
him;
the events,
from
Shittim
to
Gilgal,
so
that
you
may
be
certain
of
the
upright
acts
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}With
what
am
I
to
come
before
the
Lord
and
go
with bent head
before
the
high
God?
am
I
to
come
before
him
with burned
offerings,
with
young oxen
a
year
old?
\VS{7}Will
the
Lord
be
pleased
with
thousands
of sheep
or
with
ten
thousand rivers
of
oil?
am
I
to
give
my first child
for
my wrongdoing,
the
fruit
of
my
body
for
the
sin
of
my
soul?
\VS{8}He
has
made clear
to
you,
O
man,
what
is
good;
and
what
is
desired
from
you
by
the
Lord;
only
doing
what
is
right,
and loving
mercy,
and walking
without pride
before
your
God.
\VS{9}The
voice
of
the
Lord
is
crying out
to
the
town:
Give ear,
you
tribes
and
the meeting
of
the
town.
\VS{10}Am
I
to let
the
stores
of
the evil-doer go
out
of
my memory,
and
the
short
measure,
which
is
cursed?
\VS{11}Is
it possible
for
me
to let wrong
scales
and the
bag
of
false
weights go without punishment?
\VS{12}For
its
men
of wealth
are cruel,
and
its
people
have
said
what
is not true,
and
their
tongue
is
false
in
their
mouth.
\VS{13}So
I
have
made
a start
with
your punishment;
I
have
made
you
waste
because
of
your
sins.
\VS{14}You
will
have
food,
but
not
enough;
your shame
will
be ever
with
you:
you
will
get
your goods moved,
but
you
will
not
take
them
away safely;
and
what
you do
take
away
I
will
give
to
the
sword.
\VS{15}You
will put
in
seed,
but
you
will
not get
in
the grain;
you
will
be crushing
olives,
but
your bodies
will
not
be rubbed
with
the
oil;
and
you
will get
in
the
grapes,
but
you
will
have
no
wine.
\VS{16}For
you
have
kept
the laws
of
Omri
and
all
the
works
of
the
family
of
Ahab,
and
you
have
been guided
by
their designs:
so
that
I
might
make
you
a
cause
of wonder
and
your
people
a
cause
of hisses;
and
the
shame
of
my
people
will
be
on
you.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Sorrow
is mine!
for
I
am
as
when
they
have got
in
the
summer fruits,
like
the last
of
the grapes:
there
is
nothing
for
food,
not
even
an early
fig
for
my
desire.
\VS{2}The good
man
is
gone
from
the
earth,
there
is
no
one
upright
among
men:
they
are
all waiting secretly
for
blood,
every
man
is going
after
his
brother
with
a net.
\VS{3}Their
hands
are
made ready
to
do
evil;
the
ruler
makes requests
for money,
and
the
judge
is looking
for
a reward;
and
the
great
man gives decisions
at
his pleasure,
and
the right
is twisted.
\VS{4}The
best
of
them
is
like
a waste plant,
and
their
upright ones
are
like
a wall
of
thorns.
Sorrow!
the
day
of
their
fate
has
come;
now
will trouble
come
on
them.
\VS{5}Put
no
faith
in
a
friend,
do
not
let
your hope
be placed
in
a relation:
keep
watch
on
the
doors
of
your
mouth
against
her
who
is resting
on
your breast.
\VS{6}For
the
son puts shame
on
his
father,
the
daughter goes
against
her
mother
and
the
daughter-in-law
against
her
mother-in-law;
and
a man's haters
are
those
of
his
family.
\VS{7}But
as
for
me,
I
am looking
to
the
Lord;
I
am waiting
for
the
God
of
my
salvation:
the ears
of
my
God
will
be open
to
me.
\VS{8}Do
not
be
glad
because
of
my sorrow,
O
my hater:
after
my
fall
I
will
be lifted
up;
when
I
am
seated
in
the
dark,
the
Lord
will
be
a
light
to
me.
\VS{9}I
will undergo
the
wrath
of
the
Lord,
because
of
my
sin
against
him;
till
he
takes
up
my
cause
and
does
what
is
right
for
me:
when
he
makes
me
come
out
into
the
light,
I
will
see
his
righteousness;
\VS{10}And
my hater
will
see
it
and
be
covered
with
shame; she
who
said
to
me,
Where
is
the
Lord
your
God?
my
eyes
will
see
their desire effected
on
her,
now she
will
be crushed under foot
like
the dust
of
the
streets.
\VS{11}A
day
for
building
your
walls!
in
that
day
will
your
limits
be stretched
far
and wide.
\VS{12}In
that
day
they
will
come
to
you
from
Assyria
and
the
towns
of
Egypt,
and
from
Egypt
even
to
the
River,
and
from
sea
to
sea
and
from
mountain
to
mountain.
\VS{13}But
the
land
will
become
a
waste
because
of
its
people,
as
the
fruit
of
their
works.
\VS{14}Keep
your
people safe
with
your
rod,
the
flock
of
your
heritage,
living
by themselves
in
the
woods
in
the
middle
of
Carmel: let
them
get
their food
in
Bashan
and
Gilead
as
in
the
past.
\VS{15}As
in
the
days
when
you
came
out
from
the
land
of
Egypt, let
us
see
things
of wonder.
\VS{16}The
nations
will
see
and
be
shamed
because
of
all
their
strength;
they
will
put
their
hands
on
their
mouths,
their
ears
will
be stopped.
\VS{17}They
will take
dust
as
their food
like
a
snake,
like
the things which go flat
on
the
earth;
they
will
come shaking
with
fear
out
of
their secret places:
they
will
come
with
fear
to
the
Lord
our
God, full
of
fear
because
of
you.
\VS{18}Who
is
a
God
like
you, offering forgiveness
for evil-doing
and overlooking
the
sins
of
the
rest
of
his
heritage?
he
does
not keep
his
wrath
for
ever,
because
his
delight
is
in mercy.
\VS{19}He
will
again
have
pity
on
us;
he
will
put
our
sins
under
his feet:
and
you
will send
all
our
sins
down
into
the heart
of
the
sea.
\VS{20}You
will
make clear
your good
faith
to
Jacob
and
your mercy
to
Abraham,
as
you
gave
your
oath
to
our
fathers
from
times
long past.
\par }