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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
1:10 Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the
 house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
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.
1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but
 evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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.
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 will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of
 Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
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.
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: so they oppress a man and his
 house, even a man and his heritage.
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.
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.
2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot
 in the congregation 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] 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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;
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.
4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the
 daughter