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world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
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forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
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The Book of Micah
Chapter 1
001:001 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the
Morasthite in the
days of Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which
he
saw concerning Samaria and
Jerusalem.
001:002 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all
that therein
is: and let the Lord
GOD be witness against you, the LORD
from
his holy temple.
001:003 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his
place, and will
come down, and
tread upon the high places of the earth.
001:004 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and
the valleys
shall be cleft, as wax
before the fire, and as the waters
that
are poured down a steep
place.
001:005 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? and what are
the high places of Judah? are
they
not Jerusalem?
001:006 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the
field, and as
plantings of a
vineyard: and I will pour down the
stones
thereof into the valley,
and I will discover the
foundations
thereof.
001:007 And all the graven images thereof shall be
beaten to pieces,
and all the
hires thereof shall be burned with the fire,
and
all the idols thereof will I
lay desolate: for she gathered it
of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire
of
an harlot.
001:008 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go
stripped and naked:
I will make a
wailing like the dragons, and mourning as
the
owls.
001:009 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto
Judah; he is
come unto the gate of
my people, even to Jerusalem.
001:010 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all:
in the house of
Aphrah roll
thyself in the dust.
001:011 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having
thy shame
naked: the inhabitant of
Zaanan came not forth in the
mourning
of Bethezel; he shall
receive of you his standing.
001:012 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully
for good: but
evil came down from
the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
001:013 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot
to the swift
beast: she is the
beginning of the sin to the daughter
of
Zion: for the transgressions of
Israel were found in thee.
001:014 Therefore shalt thou give presents to
Moreshethgath: the
houses of
Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
001:015 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant
of Mareshah:
he shall come unto
Adullam the glory of Israel.
001:016 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate
children;
enlarge thy baldness as
the eagle; for they are gone into
captivity from thee.
002:001 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil
upon their
beds! when the morning
is light, they practise it, because
it
is in the power of their
hand.
002:002 And they covet fields, and take them by
violence; and houses,
and take
them away: so they oppress a man and his house,
even
a man and his heritage.
002:003 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against
this family do
I devise an evil,
from which ye shall not remove your
necks;
neither shall ye go
haughtily: for this time is evil.
002:004 In that day shall one take up a parable against
you, and
lament with a doleful
lamentation, and say, We be
utterly
spoiled: he hath changed
the portion of my people: how hath
he
removed it from me! turning
away he hath divided our fields.
002:005 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a
cord by lot
in the congregation of
the LORD.
002:006 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy:
they shall
not prophesy to them,
that they shall not take shame.
002:007 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the
spirit of the
LORD straitened? are
these his doings? do not my words do
good
to him that walketh
uprightly?
002:008 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy:
ye pull off
the robe with the
garment from them that pass by securely
as
men averse from war.
002:009 The women of my people have ye cast out from
their pleasant
houses; from their
children have ye taken away my glory
for
ever.
002:010 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest:
because it is
polluted, it shall
destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
002:011 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do
lie, saying, I
will prophesy unto
thee of wine and of strong drink; he
shall
even be the prophet of this
people.
002:012 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 the flock
in the midst of their fold: they
shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
002:013 The breaker is come up before them: they have
broken up, and
have passed through
the gate, and are gone out by it:
and
their king shall pass before
them, and the LORD on the head of
them.
003:001 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 know judgment?
003:002 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck
off their skin
from off them, and
their flesh from off their bones;
003:003 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 within the caldron.
003:004 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will
not hear them:
he will even hide
his face from them at that time, as
they
have behaved themselves ill
in their doings.
003:005 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
make my
people err, that bite with
their teeth, and cry, Peace; and
he
that putteth not into their
mouths, they even prepare war
against him.
003:006 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 down over the prophets, and
the
day shall be dark over
them.
003:007 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the
diviners confounded:
yea, they
shall all cover their lips; for there is no
answer
of God.
003:008 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of
the LORD, and of
judgment, and of
might, to declare unto Jacob his
transgression, and to Israel his sin.
003:009 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.
003:010 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
003:011 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 LORD,
and say, Is not the LORD among
us?
none evil can come upon us.
003:012 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as
a field, and
Jerusalem shall
become heaps, and the mountain of the house
as
the high places of the
forest.
004:001 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain
of the house of the
LORD shall be established in the top
of
the mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills; and
people shall flow unto it.
004:002 And many nations shall come, 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 teach us of
his ways, and we will walk in
his
paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word
of
the LORD from Jerusalem.
004:003 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke
strong
nations afar off; and they
shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation
shall
not lift up a sword against
nation, neither shall they learn
war any more.
004:004 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.
004:005 For all people will walk every one in the name
of his god, and
we will walk in
the name of the LORD our God for ever
and
ever.
004:006 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her
that halteth,
and I will gather
her that is driven out, and her that I
have
afflicted;
004:007 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and
her that was
cast far off a strong
nation: and the LORD shall reign
over
them in mount Zion from
henceforth, even for ever.
004:008 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold
of the
daughter of Zion, unto thee
shall it come, even the first
dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
004:009 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no
king in thee? is
thy counsellor
perished? for pangs have taken thee as a
woman
in travail.
004:010 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O
daughter of Zion,
like a woman in
travail: for now shalt thou go forth out
of
the city, and thou shalt dwell
in the field, and thou shalt go
even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the
LORD
shall redeem thee from the
hand of thine enemies.
004:011 Now also many nations are gathered against thee,
that say, Let
her be defiled, and
let our eye look upon Zion.
004:012 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD,
neither understand
they his
counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves
into
the floor.
004:013 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will
make thine
horn iron, and I will
make thy hoofs brass: and thou
shalt
beat in pieces many people:
and I will consecrate their gain
unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the
whole
earth.
005:001 Now 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.
005:002 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be
little among the
thousands of
Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth
unto
me that is to be ruler in
Israel; whose goings forth have
been
from of old, from
everlasting.
005:003 Therefore will he give them up, until the time
that she which
travaileth hath
brought forth: then the remnant of
his
brethren shall return unto the
children of Israel.
005:004 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of
the LORD, in
the majesty of the
name of the LORD his God; and they
shall
abide: for now shall he be
great unto the ends of the earth.
005:005 And this man shall be the peace, when 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.
005:006 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with
the sword, and
the land of Nimrod
in the entrances thereof: thus shall
he
deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he cometh into our land,
and
when he treadeth within our borders.
005:007 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst
of many people
as a dew from the
LORD, as the showers upon the grass,
that
tarrieth not for man, nor
waiteth for the sons of men.
005:008 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: who, if he go
through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and
none
can deliver.
005:009 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine
adversaries, and all
thine enemies
shall be cut off.
005:010 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD, that I
will cut off thy
horses out of the midst of thee, and I
will
destroy thy chariots:
005:011 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and
throw down all
thy strong
holds:
005:012 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine
hand; and thou
shalt have no more
soothsayers:
005:013 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy
standing images
out of the midst
of thee; and thou shalt no more worship
the
work of thine hands.
005:014 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst
of thee: so
will I destroy thy
cities.
005:015 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury
upon the
heathen, such as they
have not heard.
006:001 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend
thou before
the mountains, and let
the hills hear thy voice.
006:002 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy,
and ye strong
foundations of the
earth: for the LORD hath a controversy
with
his people, and he will plead
with Israel.
006:003 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and
wherein have I
wearied thee?
testify against me.
006:004 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.
006:005 O my people, remember now what Balak king of
Moab consulted,
and what Balaam
the son of Beor answered him from Shittim
unto
Gilgal; that ye may know the
righteousness of the LORD.
006:006 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow
myself before
the high God? shall
I come before him with burnt
offerings,
with calves of a year
old?
006:007 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
or with ten
thousands of rivers of
oil? shall I give my firstborn for
my
transgression, the fruit of my
body for the sin of my soul?
006:008 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and
what doth the
LORD require of
thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and
to walk humbly with thy
God?
006:009 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the
man of wisdom
shall see thy name:
hear ye the rod, and who hath
appointed
it.
006:010 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the
house of the
wicked, and the scant
measure that is abominable?
006:011 Shall I count them pure with the wicked
balances, and with the
bag of
deceitful weights?
006:012 For the rich men thereof are full of violence,
and the
inhabitants thereof have
spoken lies, and their tongue is
deceitful in their mouth.
006:013 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting
thee, in
making thee desolate
because of thy sins.
006:014 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy
casting down
shall be in the midst
of thee; and thou shalt take hold,
but
shalt not deliver; and that
which thou deliverest will I give
up to the sword.
006:015 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou
shalt tread the
olives, but thou
shalt not anoint thee with oil; and
sweet
wine, but shalt not drink
wine.
006:016 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the
works of the
house of Ahab, and ye
walk in their counsels; that I
should
make thee a desolation, and
the inhabitants thereof an
hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
007:001 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered
the summer
fruits, as the
grapegleanings of the vintage: there is
no
cluster to eat: my soul desired
the firstripe fruit.
007:002 The good man is perished out of the earth: and
there is none
upright among men:
they all lie in wait for blood; they
hunt
every man his brother with a
net.
007:003 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly,
the prince
asketh, and the judge
asketh for a reward; and the great
man,
he uttereth his mischievous
desire: so they wrap it up.
007:004 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright
is sharper
than a thorn hedge: the
day of thy watchmen and thy
visitation
cometh; now shall be
their perplexity.
007:005 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence
in a guide:
keep the doors of thy
mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
007:006 For the son dishonoureth the father, the
daughter riseth up
against her
mother, the daughter in law against her mother
in
law; a man's enemies are the
men of his own house.
007:007 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait
for the God
of my salvation: my
God will hear me.
007:008 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I
fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in
darkness, the LORD shall be a light
unto
me.
007:009 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because
I have sinned
against him, until
he plead my cause, and execute judgment
for
me: he will bring me forth to
the light, and I shall behold
his
righteousness.
007:010 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and
shame shall
cover her which said
unto me, Where is the LORD thy God?
mine
eyes shall behold her: now
shall she be trodden down as the
mire of the streets.
007:011 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in
that day shall
the decree be far
removed.
007:012 In that day also he shall come 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.
007:013 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate
because of them
that dwell
therein, for the fruit of their doings.
007:014 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine
heritage,
which dwell solitarily
in the wood, in the midst of
Carmel:
let them feed in Bashan
and Gilead, as in the days of old.
007:015 According to the days of thy coming out of the
land of Egypt
will I shew unto him
marvellous things.
007:016 The nations shall see and be confounded at all
their might:
they shall lay their
hand upon their mouth, their ears
shall
be deaf.
007:017 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they
shall move out
of their holes like
worms of the earth: they shall be
afraid
of the LORD our God, and
shall fear because of thee.
007:018 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth
iniquity, and
passeth by the
transgression of the remnant of his
heritage?
he retaineth not his
anger for ever, because he delighteth
in
mercy.
007:019 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon
us; he will
subdue our iniquities;
and thou wilt cast all their sins
into
the depths of the sea.
007:020 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the
mercy to
Abraham, which thou hast
sworn unto our fathers from the
days
of old.