MIC 01:01  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 01:02  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 01:03  For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and

will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

MIC 01:04  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 01:05  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 01:06  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 01:07  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 01:08  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 01:09  For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto Judah;

he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.

MIC 01:10  Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the

house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

MIC 01:11  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 01:12  For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good:

but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

MIC 01:13  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 01:14  Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the

houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.

MIC 01:15  Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of

Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

MIC 01:16  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 02:01  Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon

their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it

is in the power of their hand.

MIC 02:02  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 02:03  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 02:04  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 02:05  Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by

lot in the congregation of the LORD.

MIC 02:06  Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they

shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame.

MIC 02:07  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 02:08  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 02:09  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 02:10  Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest:

because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore

destruction.

MIC 02:11  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 02:12  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 02:13  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 03:01  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 03:02  Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their

skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

MIC 03:03  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 03:04  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 03:05  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 03:06  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 03:07  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 03:08  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 03:09  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 03:10  They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with

iniquity.

MIC 03:11  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 03:12  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 04:01  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 04:02  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 04:03  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 04:04  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 04:05  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 04:06  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 04:07  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 04:08  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 04:09  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 04:10  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 04:11  Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that

say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

MIC 04:12  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 04:13  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 05:01  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 05:02  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 05:03  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 05:04  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 05:05  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 05:06  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 05:07  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 05:08  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 05:09  Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and

all thine enemies shall be cut off.

MIC 05:10  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 05:11  And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down

all thy strong holds:

MIC 05:12  And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and

thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:

MIC 05:13  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 05:14  And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee:

so will I destroy thy cities.

MIC 05:15  And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the

heathen, such as they have not heard.

MIC 06:01  Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou

before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

MIC 06:02  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 06:03  O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have

I wearied thee? testify against me.

MIC 06:04  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 06:05  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 06:06  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 06:07  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 06:08  He hath showed 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 06:09  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 06:10  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of

the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?

MIC 06:11  Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and

with the bag of deceitful weights?

MIC 06:12  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 06:13  Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee,

in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

MIC 06:14  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 06:15  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 06:16  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 07:01  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 07:02  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 07:03  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 07:04  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 07:05  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 07:06  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 07:07  Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the

God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

MIC 07:08  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 07:09  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 07:10  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 07:11  [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that

day shall the decree be far removed.

MIC 07:12  [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 07:13  Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of

them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

MIC 07:14  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 07:15  According to the days of thy coming out of the land of

Egypt will I show unto him marvellous [things].

MIC 07:16  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 07:17  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 07:18  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 07:19  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 07:20  Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the mercy to

Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of

old.