\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Micah}

{\MT Micah


\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz,
{\ADD{and}} Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

\VS{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.

\VS{3}For behold, the LORD cometh forth from his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

\VS{4}And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire,
{\ADD{and}} as the waters
{\ADD{that are}} poured down a steep place.

\VS{5}For the transgression of Jacob
{\ADD{is}} all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What
{\ADD{is}} the transgression of Jacob?
{\ADD{is it}} not Samaria? and what
{\ADD{are}} the high places of Judah?
{\ADD{are they}} not Jerusalem?

\VS{6}Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field,
{\ADD{and}} as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and I will lay bare her foundations.

\VS{7}And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with the fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate: for she gathered
{\ADD{it}} from the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.

\VS{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.

\VS{9}For her wound
{\ADD{is}} incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people,
{\ADD{even}} to Jerusalem.

\VS{10}Declare ye
{\ADD{it}} not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

\VS{11}Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame exposed: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive from you his standing.

\VS{12}For the inhabitant of Maroth waited anxiously for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

\VS{13}O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she
{\ADD{is}} the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

\VS{14}Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib
{\ADD{shall be}} a lie to the kings of Israel.

\VS{15}Yet will I bring an heir to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come to Adullam the glory of Israel.

\VS{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.



\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}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.

\VS{2}And they covet fields, and take
{\ADD{them}} by violence; and houses, and take
{\ADD{them}} away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

\VS{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
{\ADD{is}} evil.

\VS{4}In that day shall
{\ADD{one}} take up a parable against you, and lament with a grievous lamentation,
{\ADD{and}} say, We are utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed
{\ADD{it}} from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

\VS{5}Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

\VS{6}Prophesy ye not,
{\ADD{say they to them that}} prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them,
{\ADD{that}} they shall not take shame.

\VS{7}O
{\ADD{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?

\VS{8}Even of late my people hath risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse to war.

\VS{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.

\VS{10}Arise ye, and depart; for this
{\ADD{is}} not
{\ADD{your}} rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy
{\ADD{you}} , even with a grievous destruction.

\VS{11}If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood doth lie,
{\ADD{saying}} , I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

\VS{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
{\ADD{the multitude of}} men.

\VS{13}The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and have gone out by it; and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.



\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel:
{\ADD{Is it}} not for you to know judgment?

\VS{2}Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

\VS{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.

\VS{4}Then shall they cry to 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.

\VS{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:

\VS{6}Therefore night
{\ADD{shall be}} to you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

\VS{7}Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for
{\ADD{there is}} no answer of God.

\VS{8}But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

\VS{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.

\VS{10}They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

\VS{11}Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say,
{\ADD{Is}} not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.

\VS{12}Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed
{\ADD{as}} a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.



\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But in the last days it shall come to pass,
{\ADD{that}} the mount of the house of the LORD shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it.

\VS{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 from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

\VS{3}And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

\VS{4}But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make
{\ADD{them}} afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken
{\ADD{it}} .

\VS{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.

\VS{6}In that day, saith the LORD, I will assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

\VS{7}And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

\VS{8}And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, to thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come, to the daughter of Jerusalem.

\VS{9}Now why dost thou cry aloud?
{\ADD{is there}} no king in thee? hath thy counselor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

\VS{10}Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth from the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go
{\ADD{even}} to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thy enemies.

\VS{11}Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

\VS{12}But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he will gather them as sheaves into the floor.

\VS{13}Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain to JEHOVAH, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.



\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{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.

\VS{2}But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,
{\ADD{though}} thou art little among the thousands of Judah,
{\ADD{yet}} out of thee shall he come forth to me
{\ADD{that is}} to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
{\ADD{have been}} from of old, from everlasting.

\VS{3}Therefore will he give them up, until the time
{\ADD{that}} she who travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

\VS{4}And he will 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 will he be great to the ends of the earth.

\VS{5}And this
{\ADD{man}} will 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.

\VS{6}And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its entrances: thus will he deliver
{\ADD{us}} from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

\VS{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.

\VS{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 goeth through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

\VS{9}Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thy adversaries, and all thy enemies shall be cut off.

\VS{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:

\VS{11}And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

\VS{12}And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no
{\ADD{more}} sooth-sayers:

\VS{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 thy hands.

\VS{14}And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

\VS{15}And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.



\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

\VS{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.

\VS{3}O my people, what have I done to thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me,

\VS{4}For I brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee from the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

\VS{5}O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.

\VS{6}Wherewith shall I come before the LORD,
{\ADD{and}} bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?

\VS{7}Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
{\ADD{or}} with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born
{\ADD{for}} my transgression, the fruit of my body
{\ADD{for}} the sin of my soul?

\VS{8}He hath shown thee, O man, what
{\ADD{is}} good; and what the LORD doth require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

\VS{9}The LORD'S voice crieth to the city, and
{\ADD{the man of}} wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

\VS{10}Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure
{\ADD{that is}} abominable?

\VS{11}Shall I count
{\ADD{them}} pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

\VS{12}For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue
{\ADD{is}} deceitful in their mouth.

\VS{13}Therefore also will I make
{\ADD{thee}} sick in smiting thee, in making
{\ADD{thee}} desolate because of thy sins.

\VS{14}Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down
{\ADD{shall be}} in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and
{\ADD{that}} which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

\VS{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.

\VS{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.



\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage:
{\ADD{there is}} no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruit.

\VS{2}The good
{\ADD{man}} hath perished from the earth: and
{\ADD{there is}} none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

\VS{3}That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge
{\ADD{asketh}} for a reward; and the great
{\ADD{man}} , he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

\VS{4}The best of them
{\ADD{is}} as a brier: the most upright
{\ADD{is sharper}} than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen
{\ADD{and}} thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

\VS{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.

\VS{6}For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies
{\ADD{are}} the men of his own house.

\VS{7}Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

\VS{8}Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD
{\ADD{will be}} a light to me.

\VS{9}I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he shall plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light,
{\ADD{and}} I shall behold his righteousness.

\VS{10}Then
{\ADD{she that is}} my enemy shall see
{\ADD{it}} , and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD thy God? my eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

\VS{11}{\ADD{In}} the day that thy walls are to be built,
{\ADD{in}} that day shall the decree be far removed.

\VS{12}{\ADD{In}} that day
{\ADD{also}} he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and
{\ADD{from}} the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and
{\ADD{from}} mountain to mountain.

\VS{13}Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

\VS{14}Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, who dwell solitarily
{\ADD{in}} the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed
{\ADD{in}} Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

\VS{15}According to the days of thy departure from the land of Egypt will I show to him marvelous
{\ADD{things}} .

\VS{16}The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay
{\ADD{their}} hand upon
{\ADD{their}} mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

\VS{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.

\VS{18}Who
{\ADD{is}} a God like to 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
{\ADD{in}} mercy.

\VS{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.

\VS{20}Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob,
{\ADD{and}} the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.


\par }