The California Collection/TheCaliforniaCollection.cdr/his051/micah.txt

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MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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?
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 1:10 Declare ye {it} not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in
the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for
good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of
Jerusalem.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 1:14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath:
the houses of Achzib {shall be} a lie to the kings of Israel.
MICAH 1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of
Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord
by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
MICAH 2:6 Prophesy ye not, {say they to them that} prophesy: they
shall not prophesy to them, {that} they shall not take shame.
MICAH 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?
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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?
MICAH 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;
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with
iniquity.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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}.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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;
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 4:9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? {is there} no king in
thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a
woman in travail.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 4:11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that
say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 5:9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries,
and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
MICAH 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:
MICAH 5:11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw
down all thy strong holds:
MICAH 5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and
thou shalt have no {more} soothsayers:
MICAH 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.
MICAH 5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of
thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
MICAH 5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon
the heathen, such as they have not heard.
MICAH 6:1 Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou
before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein
have I wearied thee?  testify against me.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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?
MICAH 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?
MICAH 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?
MICAH 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.
MICAH 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house
of the wicked, and the scant measure {that is} abominable?
MICAH 6:11 Shall I count {them} pure with the wicked balances,
and with the bag of deceitful weights?
MICAH 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.
MICAH 6:13 Therefore also will I make {thee} sick in smiting
thee, in making {thee} desolate because of thy sins.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 7:7 Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for
the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 7:11 {In} the day that thy walls are to be built, {in} that
day shall the decree be far removed.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 7:13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of
them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 7:15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of
Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous {things}.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.
MICAH 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.