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  Micah

  1:1 The ham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw ing Samaria and Jerusalem.

  1:2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: ahe LOD be emple.

  1:3 For, behold, the LORDeth forth out of his place, and h.

  1:4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as eep place.

  1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? andJerusalem?

  1:6 Therefore I hereof.

  1:7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned .

  1:8 Therefore I he owls.

  1:9 For her o Jerusalem.

  1:10 Declare ye it not at Gath, .

  1:11 Pass ye aanding.

  1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth e of Jerusalem.

  1:13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the shee.

  1:14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

  1:15 Yet he glory of Israel.

  1:16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are goo captivity from thee.

  2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and heir hand.

  2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them aage.

  2:3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from ime is evil.

  2:4 In that day shall oake up a parable against you, and lament h divided our fields.

  2:5 Therefore thou shalt have hat shall cast a cord by lot in the gregation of the LORD.

  2:6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

  2:7 O thou that art he house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my ly?

  2:8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robepass by securely as men averse from war.

  2:9 The aken away my glory for ever.

  2:10 Arise ye, a; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even ion.

  2:11 If a man his people.

  2:12 I ude of men.

  2:13 The breaker ise up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are go by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

  3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to kno?

  3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; heir bones;

  3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh he caldron.

  3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he heir doings.

  3:5 Thus saith the LORD ing the prophets that make my people err, that bitehim.

  3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go dohem.

  3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners founded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

  3:8 But truly I am full of poo Israel his sin.

  3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  3:10 They build up Zion y.

  3:11 The heads thereof judge for rehe LORD among us? none evil e upon us.

  3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plo.

  4:1 But in the last days it shalle to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established iop of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flo.

  4:2 And many nations shalle, and say, e, a us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he he LORD from Jerusalem.

  4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their shey 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 the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

  4:5 For all people he LORD od for ever and ever.

  4:6 In that day, saith the LORD, ed;

  4:7 And I h, even for ever.

  4:8 And thou, O toer of Jerusalem.

  4:9 Noravail.

  4:10 Be in pain, and labour t forth, O daughter of Zion, like a hine enemies.

  4:11 No our eye look upon Zion.

  4:12 But they knohe floor.

  4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I h.

  5:1 Nohe cheek.

  5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall hee forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; ing.

  5:3 Therefore he children of Israel.

  5:4 And he shall stand and feed irength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for noh.

  5:5 And this man shall be the peace,principal men.

  5:6 And they shall hin our borders.

  5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dehe sons of men.

  5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: h in pieces, and nonedeliver.

  5:9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

  5:10 And it shalle to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I s:

  5:11 And I rong holds:

  5:12 And I hsayers:

  5:13 Thy graven images also hine hands.

  5:14 And I ies.

  5:15 And Iheard.

  6:1 Hear ye nohy voice.

  6:2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD"s troversy, arong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a troversy h Israel.

  6:3 O my people,me.

  6:4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

  6:5 O my people, remember nohe LORD.

  6:6 Whereh calves of a year old?

  6:7 Will the LORD be pleased he sin of my soul?

  6:8 He hath shehy God?

  6:9 The LORD"s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of .

  6:10 Are there yet the treasures ofis abominable?

  6:11 Shall I t them pure s?

  6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  6:13 Therefore also hy sins.

  6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting dohe sword.

  6:15 Thou shalt so drink wine.

  6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the he reproay people.

  7:1 Woe is me! for I am as .

  7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright amohey all lie in h a.

  7:3 That they may do evilup.

  7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy y.

  7:5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not fiden a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

  7:6 For the son dishohe father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in lahe men of his own house.

  7:7 Therefore I ion: my God will hear me.

  7:8 Rejoiot against me, O mine enemy: o me.

  7:9 I eousness.

  7:10 Thehat is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her s.

  7:11 In the day that thy he decree be far removed.

  7:12 In that day also he shalle even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

  7:13 Nithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dheir doings.

  7:14 Feed thy people he days of old.

  7:15 Acc to the days of thying out of the land of Egypt hings.

  7:16 The nations shall see and be fou 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, they shall move out of their holes like hee.

  7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardh iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retah not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

  7:19 He he sea.

  7:20 Thou he days of old.