Between Heaven & Hell 2/BetweenHeavenHell.cdr/bible/mic.txt

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MIC 1:1  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.

MIC 1:2  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.

MIC 1:3  For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come
 down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

MIC 1:4  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.

MIC 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? and
 what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

MIC 1:6  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.

MIC 1:7  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.

MIC 1:8  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.

MIC 1:9  For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto
 the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

MIC 1:10  Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah
 roll thyself in the dust.

MIC 1:11  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.

MIC 1:12  For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came
 down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

MIC 1:13  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.

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

MIC 1:15  Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he
 shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

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

MIC 2:1  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.

MIC 2:2  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.

MIC 2:3  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.

MIC 2:4  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.

MIC 2:5  Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the
 congregation of the LORD.

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

MIC 2:7  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?

MIC 2:8  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.

MIC 2:9  The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses;
 from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

MIC 2:10  Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is
 polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

MIC 2:11  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.

MIC 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
 the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason
 of the multitude of men.

MIC 2:13  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.

MIC 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 know judgment?

MIC 3:2  Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from
 off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

MIC 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 within the caldron.

MIC 3:4  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.

MIC 3:5  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.

MIC 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
 down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

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

MIC 3:8  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.

MIC 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.

MIC 3:10  They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

MIC 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
 LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

MIC 3:12  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.

MIC 4:1  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.

MIC 4:2  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.

MIC 4:3  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.

MIC 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.

MIC 4:5  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.

MIC 4:6  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;

MIC 4:7  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.

MIC 4:8  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.

MIC 4:9  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.

MIC 4:10  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.

MIC 4:11  Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be
 defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

MIC 4:12  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.

MIC 4:13  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.

MIC 5:1  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.

MIC 5:2  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.

MIC 5:3  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.

MIC 5:4  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.

MIC 5:5  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.

MIC 5:6  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.

MIC 5:7  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.

MIC 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: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth
 in pieces, and none can deliver.

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

MIC 5:10  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:

MIC 5:11  And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy
 strong holds:

MIC 5:12  And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have
 no more soothsayers:

MIC 5:13  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.

MIC 5:14  And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I
 destroy thy cities.

MIC 5:15  And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such
 as they have not heard.

MIC 6:1  Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the
 mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

MIC 6:2  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.

MIC 6:3  O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied
 thee? testify against me.

MIC 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.

MIC 6:5  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.

MIC 6:6  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?

MIC 6:7  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?

MIC 6:8  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?

MIC 6:9  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.

MIC 6:10  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the
 wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

MIC 6:11  Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of
 deceitful weights?

MIC 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.

MIC 6:13  Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee
 desolate because of thy sins.

MIC 6:14  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.

MIC 6:15  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.

MIC 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 should make thee a
 desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear
 the reproach of my people.

MIC 7:1  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.

MIC 7:2  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.

MIC 7:3  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.

MIC 7:4  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.

MIC 7:5  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.

MIC 7:6  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.

MIC 7:7  Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my
 salvation: my God will hear me.

MIC 7:8  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.

MIC 7:9  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.

MIC 7:10  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.

MIC 7:11  In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the
 decree be far removed.

MIC 7:12  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.

MIC 7:13  Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell
 therein, for the fruit of their doings.

MIC 7:14  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.

MIC 7:15  According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I
 shew unto him marvellous things.

MIC 7:16  The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they
 shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

MIC 7:17  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.

MIC 7:18  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.

MIC 7:19  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.

MIC 7:20  Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which
 thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.