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1:1 The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morasthite in the
 days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he
 saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
1:2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that
 is therein: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you,
 the Lord from his holy temple!
1:3 For behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will
 come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
1:4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys
 shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a
 steep place.
1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins
 of the house of Israel. Whence is the transgression of Jacob?
 is it not [from] Samaria? And whence are the high places of
 Judah? are they not [from] Jerusalem?
1:6 Therefore will I make Samaria as a heap of the field, as
 plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones
 thereof into the valley, and I will lay bare the foundations
 thereof.
1:7 And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all
 her harlot-gifts shall be burned with fire, and all her idols
 will I make a desolation; for of the hire of a harlot hath she
 gathered [them], and to a harlot's hire shall they return.
1:8 For this will I lament, and I will howl; I will go stripped
 and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning
 like the ostriches.
1:9 For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto
 Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to
 Jerusalem.
1:10 Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah
 roll thyself in the dust.
1:11 Pass away, inhabitress of Shaphir, in nakedness [and]
 shame. The inhabitress of Zaanan is not come forth for the
 lamentation of Beth-ezel: he will take from you its shelter.
1:12 For the inhabitress of Maroth waited anxiously for good;
 but evil hath come down from Jehovah unto the gate of
 Jerusalem.
1:13 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitress of
 Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion;
 for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.
1:14 Therefore shalt thou give parting-gifts to Moresheth-Gath:
 the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
1:15 I will yet bring unto thee an heir, O inhabitress of
 Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
1:16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy
 delights; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone
 into captivity from thee.
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.
2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and
 houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his
 house, even a man and his heritage.
2:3 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do
 I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks;
 neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time.
2:4 In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and
 lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly
 spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he
 removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the
 rebellious.
2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring
 line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.
2:6 Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy to
 these, the ignominy will not depart.
2:7 O thou [that art] named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah
 impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him
 that walketh uprightly?
2:8 But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off
 the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely,
 that are averse from war.
2:9 The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant
 houses; from their young children do ye take away my
 magnificence for ever.
2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place,
 because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a
 grievous destruction.
2:11 If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, [saying,] I
 will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall
 be the prophet of this people.
2:12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, the whole of thee; I will
 surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together
 as sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture:
 they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of]
 men.
2:13 One that breaketh through is gone up before them: they have
 broken forth, and have passed on to the gate, and are gone out
 by it; and their king passeth on before them, and Jehovah at
 the head of them.
3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes
 of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
3:2 Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their
 skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3:3 and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from
 off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for
 the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
3:4 Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer
 them; and he will hide his face from them at that time,
 according as they have wrought evil in their doings.
3:5 Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my
 people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but
 whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against
 him:
3:6 therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall
 be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down
 upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
3:7 And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded;
 and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no
 answer of God.
3:8 But truly I am filled with power by the Spirit of Jehovah,
 and with judgment and with might, to declare unto Jacob his
 transgression, and to 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 that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with
 unrighteousness.
3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof
 teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet
 do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst
 of us? no evil shall come upon us.
3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a
 field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of
 the house as the high places of a forest.
4:1 But it shall come to pass in the end of days [that] the
 mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of
 the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and the
 peoples shall flow unto it.
4:2 And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to
 the mountain of Jehovah, 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 out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah's
 word from Jerusalem.
4:3 And he shall judge among many peoples, and reprove strong
 nations, even afar off; and they shall forge their swords into
 ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation
 shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they
 learn war any more.
4:4 And they shall sit every one under his vine, and under his
 fig-tree; and there shall be none to make [them] afraid: for
 the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken [it].
4:5 For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his
 god; but we will walk in the name of Jehovah, our God for ever
 and ever.
4:6 In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble her that
 halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that
 I have afflicted;
4:7 and I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was
 cast far off a strong nation; and Jehovah shall reign over them
 in mount Zion, from henceforth even for ever.
4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of
 Zion, unto thee shal