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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 afflicte