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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
that
came
to Micheas
the Morasthite,
in
the
days
of Joathan, Achaz,
and Ezechias,
kings
of Juda:
which
he
saw
concerning
Samaria
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Hear,
all ye
people:
and
let
the
earth
give ear,
and
all
that
is therein:
and
let
the
Lord
God
be
a
witness
to
you,
the
Lord
from
his
holy
temple.
\VS{3}For
behold
the
Lord
will
come
forth
out
of
his
place:
and
he
will
come
down,
and
will
tread
upon
the
high
places
of
the
earth.
\VS{4}And
the
mountains
shall
be
melted
under
him:
and
the
valleys
shall
be cleft,
as
wax
before
the
fire,
and
as
waters
that run
down
a
steep
place.
\VS{5}For
the wickedness
of
Jacob
is
all
this,
and
for
the
sins
of
the
house
of
Israel.
What
is
the wickedness
of
Jacob?
is
it
not
Samaria?
and
what
are
the
high
places
of Juda?
are
they
not
Jerusalem?
\VS{6}And
I
will
make
Samaria
as
a
heap
of
stones
in
the
field
when
a
vineyard
is
planted:
and
I
will
bring
down
the
stones thereof
into
the
valley,
and
will
lay
her
foundations
bare.
\VS{7}And
all
her
graven
things shall
be cut
in
pieces,
and
all
her
wages shall
be
burnt
with
fire,
and
I
will
bring
to destruction
all
her
idols:
for
they
were
gathered
together
of
the
hire
of
a
harlot,
and unto
the
hire
of
a
harlot
they shall
return.
\VS{8}Therefore
will
I
lament
and
howl:
I
will go stripped
and
naked:
I
will
make
a
wailing
like
the dragons,
and
a
mourning
like
the
ostriches.
\VS{9}Because
her
wound
is desperate,
because
it
is
come
even
to Juda,
it hath
touched
the
gate
of
my
people
even
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}Declare ye it
not
in Geth,
weep ye
not with tears:
in
the house
of
Dust sprinkle yourselves with
dust.
\VS{11}And
pass
away, O thou
that dwellest
in
the Beautiful place, covered
with thy
shame:
she
went
not
forth
that dwelleth
in
the confines:
the House adjoining
shall
receive mourning
from
you, which stood
by herself.
\VS{12}For
she
is become weak unto
good
that dwelleth
in bitterness:
for
evil
is
come
down
from
the
Lord
into
the
gate
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}A tumult
of
chariots hath astonished
the
inhabitants
of Lachis:
it
is
the
beginning
of
sin
to
the
daughter
of Sion,
for
in thee
were
found
the
crimes
of
Israel.
\VS{14}Therefore
shall
she
send messengers
to
the inheritance
of Geth:
the
houses
of lying
to deceive
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{15}Yet
will
I
bring
an
heir
to thee
that dwellest
in Maresa:
even
to Odollam
shall
the
glory
of
Israel
come.
\VS{16}Make thee
bald,
and
be polled
for thy delicate
children:
enlarge thy
baldness
as
the
eagle:
for
they
are
carried
into
captivity
from thee.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe
to
you
that
devise
that which
is unprofitable,
and
work
evil
in
your
beds:
in
the
morning
light
they
execute
it,
because
their
hand
is
against
God.
\VS{2}And
they
have
coveted
fields,
and
taken
them
by violence,
and
houses
they
have forcibly
taken
away:
and
oppressed
a
man
and
his
house,
a
man
and
his
inheritance.
\VS{3}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold,
I
devise
an
evil
against
this
family:
from
which
you
shall
not withdraw
your
necks,
and
you
shall
not walk
haughtily,
for
this
is
a
very
evil
time.
\VS{4}In
that
day
a
parable
shall
be
taken
up
upon
you,
and
a song
shall
be sung
with melody
by
them
that
say:
We
are
laid
waste
and spoiled:
the
portion
of
my
people
is
changed:
how
shall
he
depart
from
me, whereas
he
is returning
that
will
divide
our
land?
\VS{5}Therefore thou shalt
have
none
that
shall
cast
the
cord
of
a
lot
in
the
assembly
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Speak ye
not, saying:
It
shall
not drop upon
these, confusion
shall
not take them.
\VS{7}The
house
of
Jacob saith:
Is
the
spirit
of
the
Lord straitened,
or
are
these
his
thoughts?
Are
not
my
words
good
to
him
that walketh
uprightly?
\VS{8}But
my
people,
on
the contrary,
are
risen
up
as
an
enemy:
you have
taken
away
the
cloak
off
from
the coat:
and
them
that
passed harmless
you have
turned
to
war.
\VS{9}You
have cast
out
the
women
of
my
people
from
their
houses,
in
which
they
took
delight:
you
have
taken
my
praise
for
ever
from
their
children.
\VS{10}Arise ye,
and depart,
for
there
is
no
rest
here
for
you.
For
that uncleanness
of
the land,
it
shall
be corrupted
with
a grievous corruption.
\VS{11}Would God
I
were
not
a
man
that hath
the
spirit,
and
that
I rather spoke
a
lie:
I
will
let drop
to thee
of
wine,
and
of drunkenness:
and
it
shall
be
this
people
upon whom
it
shall drop.
\VS{12}I
will
assemble
and
gather
together
all
of thee, O
Jacob:
I
will
bring
together
the
remnant
of
Israel,
I
will
put
them
together
as
a
flock
in
the
fold,
as
the
sheep
in
the
midst
of
the sheepcotes,
they
shall
make
a tumult
by reason
of
the multitude
of
men.
\VS{13}For
he
shall
go
up
that
shall
open
the
way
before
them:
they
shall divide,
and
pass
through
the
gate,
and
shall
come
in
by
it:
and
their
king
shall
pass
before
them,
and
the
Lord
at
the
head
of
them.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
I
said:
Hear,
O ye princes
of
Jacob,
and ye
chiefs
of
the
house
of
Israel:
Is
it
not
your part
to
know
judgment,
\VS{2}You
that
hate
good,
and
love
evil:
that violently pluck
off
their
skins
from
them,
and
their
flesh
from
their
bones?
\VS{3}Who
have
eaten
the
flesh
of
my
people,
and
have flayed
their
skin
from
off
them:
and
have broken,
and chopped
their
bones
as
for
the
kettle,
and
as
flesh
in
the
midst
of
the
pot.
\VS{4}Then
shall
they
cry
to
the
Lord,
and
he
will
not hear
them:
and
he
will
hide
his
face
from
them
at
that
time,
as
they
have behaved wickedly
in
their devices.
\VS{5}Thus saith
the
Lord
concerning
the
prophets
that
make
my
people
err:
that bite
with
their
teeth,
and preach
peace:
and
if
a man
give
not something
into
their
mouth,
they
prepare
war
against
him.
\VS{6}Therefore
night
shall
be
to
you instead
of
vision,
and
darkness
to
you instead
of
divination;
and
the
sun
shall
go
down
upon
the
prophets,
and
the
day
shall
be
darkened
over
them.
\VS{7}And
they
shall
be
confounded
that see
visions,
and
the
diviners
shall
be
confounded:
and
they
shall
all
cover
their faces,
because
there
is
no
answer
of
God.
\VS{8}But
yet
I
am
filled
with
the
strength
of
the
spirit
of
the
Lord,
with
judgment,
and
power:
to
declare unto
Jacob
his wickedness,
and
to
Israel
his
sin.
\VS{9}Hear
this, ye princes
of
the
house
of
Jacob,
and ye judges
of
the
house
of
Israel:
you
that
abhor
judgment,
and pervert
all
that
is
right.
\VS{10}You
that
build
up Sion
with
blood,
and
Jerusalem
with
iniquity.
\VS{11}Her princes
have
judged
for
bribes,
and
her
priests
have
taught
for hire,
and
her
prophets divined
for
money:
and
they
leaned
upon
the
Lord,
saying:
Is
not
the
Lord
in
the
midst
of
us?
no
evil
shall
come
upon
us.
\VS{12}Therefore,
because
of
you, Sion
shall
be ploughed
as
a
field,
and
Jerusalem
shall
be
as
a
heap
of stones,
and
the
mountain
of
the
temple
as
the
high
places
of
the forests.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
the
last
days,
that
the
mountain
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
shall
be
prepared
in
the
top
of
mountains,
and
high
above
the
hills:
and
people
shall flow
to
it.
\VS{2}And
many
nations
shall
come
in haste,
and
say:
Come,
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
the
law
shall
go
forth
out
of Sion,
and
the
word
of
the
Lord
out
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
he
shall
judge
among
many
people,
and
rebuke
strong
nations
afar
off:
and
they
shall
beat
their
swords
into ploughshares,
and
their
spears
into spades:
nation
shall
not
take
sword
against
nation:
neither
shall
they
learn
war
any
more.
\VS{4}And
every
man
shall
sit
under
his
vine,
and
under
his
fig
tree,
and
there
shall
be
none
to
make
them
afraid:
for
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
of
hosts hath
spoken.
\VS{5}For
all
people
will walk
every
one
in
the
name
of
his
god:
but
we
will walk
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
our
God
for
ever
and
ever.
\VS{6}In
that
day, saith
the
Lord,
I
will
gather up
her
that halteth:
and
her
that
I
had
cast
out,
I
will
gather up:
and
her
whom
I
had afflicted.
\VS{7}And
I
will
make
her
that halted,
a
remnant:
and
her
that hath
been
afflicted,
a
mighty
nation:
and
the
Lord
will
reign
over
them
in
mount Sion,
from
this
time
now
and
for
ever.
\VS{8}And thou,
O cloudy
tower
of
the
flock,
of
the
daughter
of Sion, unto thee
shall
it
come: yea
the
first power
shall
come,
the
kingdom
to
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}Now,
why art thou drawn
together
with grief? Hast thou
no
king
in thee,
or
is thy counsellor
perished,
because sorrow hath
taken thee
as
a woman
in labour?
\VS{10}Be
in pain
and labour,
O
daughter
of Sion,
as
a
woman
that bringeth
forth:
for
now shalt thou
go
out
of
the
city,
and shalt
dwell
in
the
country,
and shalt
come
even
to
Babylon,
there thou shalt
be
delivered:
there
the
Lord
will
redeem thee
out
of
the
hand
of thy
enemies.
\VS{11}And
now
many
nations
are
gathered
together
against thee,
and
they
say:
Let
her
be stoned:
and
let
our
eye
look
upon Sion.
\VS{12}But
they
have
not
known
the
thoughts
of
the
Lord,
and
have
not
understood
his
counsel:
because
he hath
gathered
them
together
as
the hay
of
the
floor.
\VS{13}Arise,
and tread,
O
daughter
of Sion:
for
I
will
make thy
horn
iron,
and thy
hoofs
I
will
make brass:
and thou shalt beat
in pieces
many
peoples,
and shalt immolate
the spoils
of
them
to
the
Lord,
and
their
strength
to
the
Lord
of
the
whole
earth.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now shalt thou
be
laid waste,
O daughter
of
the robber:
they
have
laid siege
against
us,
with
a rod
shall
they strike
the cheek
of
the judge
of
Israel.
\VS{2}AND THOU, BETHLEHEM Ephrata, art
a little
one
among
the thousands
of Juda:
out
of thee
shall
he
come
forth unto
me
that
is
to
be
the ruler
in
Israel:
and
his
going
forth
is
from
the
beginning,
from
the days
of eternity.
\VS{3}Therefore
will
he give
them
up
even
till
the
time wherein
she
that travaileth
shall
bring forth:
and
the remnant
of
his brethren
shall
be converted
to
the children
of Israel.
\VS{4}And
he
shall
stand,
and
feed
in
the strength
of
the Lord,
in
the height
of
the name
of
the Lord
his God:
and
they
shall
be converted,
for
now
shall
he
be magnified
even
to
the ends
of
the
earth.
\VS{5}And
this man
shall
be
our peace,
when
the Assyrian
shall
come
into
our
land,
and
when
he
shall
set
his
foot
in
our houses:
and
we
shall raise
against
him seven
shepherds,
and eight principal men.
\VS{6}And
they
shall feed
the
land
of Assyria
with
the sword,
and
the
land
of Nemrod
with
the spears thereof:
and
he
shall deliver
us
from
the Assyrian,
when
he
shall
come
into
our
land,
and
when
he
shall tread
in
our borders.
\VS{7}And
the
remnant
of
Jacob
shall
be
in
the
midst
of
many
peoples
as
a dew
from
the Lord,
and
as drops
upon
the grass,
which waiteth
not
for
man,
nor tarrieth
for
the children
of
men.
\VS{8}And
the remnant
of Jacob
shall
be
among
the Gentiles
in
the midst
of many peoples
as
a lion
among
the beasts
of
the forests,
and
as
a young lion
among
the flocks
of sheep:
who
when
he
shall go
through
and tread
down,
and
take,
there
is
none
to deliver.
\VS{9}Thy hand
shall
be lifted
up
over thy enemies,
and
all thy enemies
shall
be
cut
off.
\VS{10}And
it
shall come
to pass
in
that day, saith
the Lord,
that
I
will take
away thy horses
out
of
the midst
of thee,
and
will
destroy thy chariots.
\VS{11}And
I
will
destroy
the cities
of thy land,
and
will throw
down all thy strong holds,
and
I
will
take away
sorceries
out
of thy
hand,
and
there
shall
be
no divinations
in thee.
\VS{12}And
I
will
destroy thy
graven
things,
and thy statues
out
of
the
midst
of thee:
and thou shalt
no
more adore
the
works
of thy
hands.
\VS{13}And I will
pluck up thy groves out
of
the
midst
of thee:
and will crush thy
cities.
\VS{14}And
I
will execute
vengeance
in
wrath
and
in indignation
among all
the
nations
that
have
not
given ear.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear ye
what
the
Lord saith:
Arise,
contend thou
in
judgment
against
the
mountains,
and
let
the
hills
hear thy
voice.
\VS{2}Let
the
mountains
hear
the
judgment
of
the
Lord,
and
the strong
foundations
of
the
earth:
for
the
Lord
will enter
into
judgment
with
his
people,
and
he
will
plead
against
Israel.
\VS{3}O
my
people,
what have
I
done
to thee,
or
in
what have
I molested thee?
answer thou
me.
\VS{4}For
I
brought thee
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
delivered thee
out
of
the
house
of
slaves:
and
I
sent
before thy
face
Moses,
and
Aaron,
and Mary.
\VS{5}O
my
people,
remember,
I
pray thee,
what Balach
the
king
of
Moab
purposed:
and
what
Balaam
the
son
of
Beor
answered
him,
from Setim
to Galgal,
that thou mightest
know
the justices
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}What
shall
I offer
to
the
Lord
that
is worthy? wherewith
shall
I kneel
before
the
high
God?
shall
I offer holocausts unto
him,
and
calves
of
a
year
old?
\VS{7}May
the
Lord
be appeased
with
thousands
of
rams,
or
with many
thousands
of fat
he goats?
shall
I
give
my
firstborn
for
my wickedness,
the
fruit
of
my
body
for
the
sin
of
my
soul?
\VS{8}I
will shew thee,
O
man,
what
is
good,
and
what
the
Lord requireth
of thee: Verily,
to
do
judgment,
and
to
love
mercy,
and
to walk solicitous
with thy
God.
\VS{9}The
voice
of
the
Lord crieth
to
the
city,
and salvation
shall
be
to
them
that
fear thy
name:
hear,
O ye
tribes,
and
who
shall approve
it?
\VS{10}As
yet there
is
a fire
in
the
house
of
the
wicked,
the
treasures
of iniquity,
and
a scant
measure full
of wrath.
\VS{11}Shall
I
justify
wicked
balances,
and the
deceitful
weights
of the
bag?
\VS{12}By
which
her
rich
men
were
filled
with iniquity,
and
the
inhabitants thereof
have
spoken
lies,
and
their
tongue
was
deceitful
in
their
mouth.
\VS{13}And
I
therefore began
to
strike thee
with
desolation
for thy
sins.
\VS{14}Thou shalt
eat,
but shalt
not
be
filled:
and thy humiliation
shall
be
in
the
midst
of thee:
and thou shalt
take
hold,
but shalt
not save:
and
those
whom thou shalt save,
I
will
give
up
to
the
sword.
\VS{15}Thou shalt
sow,
but shalt
not
reap: thou shalt
tread
the
olives,
but shalt
not
be anointed
with
the
oil:
and
the
new
wine,
but shalt
not
drink
the
wine.
\VS{16}For thou hast
kept
the
statutes
of Amri,
and
all
the
works
of
the
house
of Achab:
and thou hast walked according
to
their wills,
that
I
should
make thee
a
desolation,
and
the
inhabitants thereof
a
hissing,
and
you
shall
bear
the
reproach
of
my
people.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe
is
me,
for
I
am
become
as
one
that gleaneth
in autumn
the grapes
of
the
vintage:
there
is
no
cluster
to
eat,
my
soul
desired
the firstripe figs.
\VS{2}The
holy
man
is
perished
out
of
the
earth,
and
there
is
none
upright
among
men:
they
all
lie
in
wait
for
blood,
every
one hunteth
his
brother
to
death.
\VS{3}The
evil
of
their
hands
they call
good:
the
prince requireth,
and
the
judge
is
for
giving:
and
the
great
man hath
uttered
the
desire
of
his
soul,
and
they
have troubled
it.
\VS{4}He
that
is
best among
them,
is
as
a brier:
and
he
that
is righteous,
as
the
thorn
of
the
hedge.
The
day
of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh:
now
shall
be
their destruction.
\VS{5}Believe
not
a
friend,
and
trust
not
in
a prince:
keep
the
doors
of thy
mouth
from
her
that sleepeth
in thy
bosom.
\VS{6}For
the
son dishonoureth
the
father,
and
the
daughter riseth
up
against
her
mother,
the
daughter
in law
against
her
mother
in law:
and
a
man’s
enemies
are
they
of
his
own
household.
\VS{7}But
I
will look towards
the
Lord,
I
will
wait
for
God
my Saviour:
my
God
will
hear
me.
\VS{8}Rejoice
not, thou,
my
enemy,
over
me,
because
I
am
fallen:
I
shall
arise,
when
I
sit
in
darkness,
the
Lord
is
my
light.
\VS{9}I
will
bear
the
wrath
of
the
Lord,
because
I
have
sinned
against
him;
until
he
judge
my
cause
and execute
judgment
for
me:
he
will
bring
me
forth
into
the
light,
I
shall
behold
his
justice.
\VS{10}And
my
enemy
shall
behold,
and she
shall
be
covered
with
shame,
who saith
to
me:
Where
is
the
Lord thy
God?
My
eyes
shall
look
down
upon
her:
now
shall she
be trodden under foot
as
the
mire
of
the
streets.
\VS{11}The
day
shall come,
that thy
walls
may
be
built
up:
in
that
day
shall
the law
be
far
removed.
\VS{12}In
that
day
they
shall
come
even
from
Assyria
to thee,
and
to
the
fortified
cities:
and
from
the
fortified
cities
even
to
the
river,
and
from
sea
to
sea,
and
from
mountain
to
mountain.
\VS{13}And
the
land
shall
be
made
desolate,
because
of
the
inhabitants thereof,
and
for
the
fruit
of
their devices.
\VS{14}Feed thy
people
with thy
rod,
the
flock
of thy
inheritance,
them
that
dwell
alone
in
the
forest,
in
the
midst
of
Carmel:
they
shall
feed
in Basan
and Galaad according
to
the
days
of
old.
\VS{15}According
to
the
days
of thy
coming
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
I
will shew
him
wonders.
\VS{16}The
nations
shall
see,
and
shall
be
confounded
at
all
their
strength:
they
shall
put
the
hand
upon
the
mouth,
their
ears
shall
be deaf.
\VS{17}They
shall
lick
the
dust
like
serpents,
as
the creeping things
of
the
earth,
they
shall
be
disturbed
in
their houses:
they
shall
dread
the
Lord
our
God,
and
shall
fear thee.
\VS{18}Who
is
a
God
like
to thee,
who takest
away
iniquity,
and passest
by
the
sin
of
the
remnant
of thy
inheritance?
he
will send
his fury
in
no
more,
because
he delighteth
in mercy.
\VS{19}He
will
turn
again,
and
have
mercy
on
us:
he
will
put
away
our
iniquities:
and
he
will
cast
all
our
sins
into
the bottom
of
the
sea.
\VS{20}Thou wilt perform
the
truth
of
Jacob,
the mercy
to
Abraham:
which thou hast
sworn
to
our
fathers
from
the
days
of old.
\par }