Bible (World English)/Micah

== Chapter 1 ==
1:1The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
1:2Hear, you peoples, all of you. 
: Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: 
; and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, 
: the Lord from his holy temple. 
1:3For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, 
: and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth. 
1:4The mountains melt under him, 
: and the valleys split apart, 
: like wax before the fire, 
: like waters that are poured down a steep place. 
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1:5“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, 
: and for the sins of the house of Israel. 
; What is the disobedience of Jacob? 
: Isn’t it Samaria? 
; And what are the high places of Judah? 
: Aren’t they Jerusalem? 
1:6Therefore, I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, 
: like places for planting vineyards; 
; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, 
: and I will uncover its foundations. 
1:7All her idols will be beaten to pieces, 
: and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, 
: and all her images I will destroy; 
; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, 
: and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.” 
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1:8For this I will lament and wail; 
: I will go stripped and naked; 
: I will howl like the jackals, 
: and moan like the daughters of owls. 
1:9For her wounds are incurable; 
: for it has come even to Judah. 
; It reaches to the gate of my people, 
: even to Jerusalem. 
1:10Don’t tell it in Gath. 
: Don’t weep at all. 
: At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust. 
1:11Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. 
: The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. 
: The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection. 
1:12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, 
: because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem. 
1:13Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. 
: She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; 
: For the transgressions of Israel were found in you. 
1:14Therefore, you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. 
: The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel. 
1:15I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. 
: He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam. 
1:16Shave your heads, 
: and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. 
; Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; 
: for they have gone into captivity from you! 
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==Chapter 2==
2:1
: and work evil on their beds! 
; When the morning is light, they practice it, 
: because it is in the power of their hand. 
2:2They covet fields, and seize them; 
: and houses, and take them away: 
: and they oppress a man and his house, 
: even a man and his heritage. 
2:3Therefore, thus says Yahweh: 
; “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, 
: from which you will not remove your necks, 
: neither will you walk haughtily; 
: for it is an evil time. 
2:4In that day they will take up a parable against you, 
: and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 
: ‘We are utterly ruined! 
: My people’s possession is divided up. 
: Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’” 
2:5Therefore, you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh. 
2:6“Don’t prophesy!” 
: They prophesy. 
; “Don’t prophesy about these things. 
: Disgrace won’t overtake us.” 
2:7Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: 
: “Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? 
: Are these his doings? 
: Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?” 
2:8But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. 
: You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle. 
2:9You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; 
: from their young children you take away my blessing forever. 
2:10Arise, and depart! 
: For this is not your resting place, 
: because of uncleanness that destroys, 
: even with a grievous destruction. 
2:11If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: 
: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” 
: he would be the prophet of this people. 
2:12I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; 
: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; 
; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, 
: as a flock in the midst of their pasture; 
: they will swarm with people. 
2:13He who breaks open the way goes up before them. 
: They break through the gate, and go out. 
: And their king passes on before them, 
: with Yahweh at their head. 
== Chapter 3 ==
3:1I said,
; “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, 
: and rulers of the house of Israel: 
: Isn’t it for you to know justice? 
3:2You who hate the good, 
: and love the evil; 
: who tear off their skin, 
: and their flesh from off their bones; 
: 3:3who also 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 caldron. 
3:4Then they will cry to Yahweh, 
: but he will not answer them. 
; Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, 
: because they made their deeds evil.” 
3:5Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
3:6“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, 
: and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; 
: and the sun will go down on the prophets, 
: and the day will be black over them. 
3:7The seers shall be disappointed, 
: and the diviners confounded. 
; Yes, they shall all cover their lips; 
: for there is no answer from God.” 
3:8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, 
: and of judgment, and of might, 
: to declare to Jacob his disobedience, 
: and to Israel his sin. 
3:9Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, 
: and rulers of the house of Israel, 
: who abhor justice, 
: and pervert all equity. 
3:10They build up Zion with blood, 
: and Jerusalem with iniquity. 
3:11Her leaders judge for bribes, 
: and her priests teach for a price, 
: and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: 
; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, 
: “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? 
: No disaster will come on us.” 
3:12Therefore, Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, 
: and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, 
: and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest. 
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==Chapter 4==
4:1
: it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, 
: and it will be exalted above the hills; 
: and peoples will stream to it. 
4:2Many nations will go and say, 
: “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 
: 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 will go forth the law, 
: and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem; 
4:3and he will judge between many peoples, 
: and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. 
: They will beat their swords into plowshares, 
: and their spears into pruning hooks. 
; Nation will not lift up sword against nation, 
: neither will they learn war any more. 
4:4But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; 
: and no one will make them afraid: 
: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken. 4:5Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; 
: but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever. 
4:6“In that day,” says Yahweh, 
: “I will assemble that which is lame, 
: and I will gather that which is driven away, 
: and that which I have afflicted; 
: 4:7and I will make that which was lame a remnant, 
: and that which was cast far off a strong nation: 
: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.” 
4:8You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, 
: to you it will come, 
: yes, the former dominion will come, 
: the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. 
4:9Now why do you cry out aloud? 
: Is there no king in you? 
: Has your counselor perished, 
: that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail? 
4:10Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, 
: like a woman in travail; 
: for now you will go forth out of the city, 
: and will dwell in the field, 
: and will come even to Babylon. 
; There you will be rescued. 
: There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. 
4:11Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, 
: “Let her be defiled, 
: and let our eye gloat over Zion.” 
4:12But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, 
: neither do they understand his counsel; 
: for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor. 
4:13Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; 
: for I will make your horn iron, 
: and I will make your hoofs brass; 
; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: 
; and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, 
: and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. 
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==Chapter 5==
5:1
: daughter of troops. 
; He has laid siege against us. 
: They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek. 
5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, 
: being small among the clans of Judah, 
: out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; 
: whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting. 
5:3Therefore, he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. 
: Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel. 
5:4He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, 
: in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: 
: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth. 
5:5He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, 
: and when he marches through our fortresses, 
: then we will raise against him seven shepherds, 
: and eight leaders of men. 
5:6They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, 
: and the land of Nimrod in its gates. 
; He will deliver us from the Assyrian, 
: when he invades our land, 
: and when he marches within our border. 
5:7The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, 
: like dew from Yahweh, 
: like showers on the grass, 
: that don’t wait for man, 
: nor wait for the sons of men. 
5:8The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, 
: in the midst of many peoples, 
: like a lion among the animals of the forest, 
: like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; 
: who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, 
: and there is no one to deliver. 
5:9Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, 
: and let all of your enemies be cut off. 
5:10“It will happen in that day,” says Yahweh, 
: “That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, 
: and will destroy your chariots. 
5:11I will cut off the cities of your land, 
: and will tear down all your strongholds. 
5:12I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; 
: and you shall have no soothsayers. 
5:13I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; 
: and you shall no more worship the work of your hands. 
5:14I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; 
: and I will destroy your cities. 
5:15I will execute vengeance in anger, 
: and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.” 
== Chapter 6 ==
6:1Listen now to what Yahweh says:
; “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, 
: and let the hills hear what you have to say. 
6:2Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, 
: and you enduring foundations of the earth; 
: for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, 
: and he will contend with Israel. 
6:3My people, what have I done to you? 
: How have I burdened you? 
: Answer me! 
6:4For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, 
: and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. 
: I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 
6:5My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, 
: and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, 
: that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.” 
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6:6How shall I come before Yahweh, 
: and bow myself before the exalted God? 
; Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, 
: with calves a year old? 
6:7Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? 
: With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? 
; Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? 
: The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 
6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. 
: What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, 
: to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? 
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6:9Yahweh's voice calls to the city, 
: and wisdom sees your name: 
; “Listen to the rod, 
: and he who appointed it. 
6:10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, 
: and a [#N5 short ephah] that is accursed? 
6:11Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, 
: and with a bag of deceitful weights? 
6:12Her rich men are full of violence, 
: her inhabitants speak lies, 
: and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. 
6:13Therefore, I also have struck you with a grievous wound. 
: I have made you desolate because of your sins. 
6:14You shall eat, but not be satisfied. 
: Your humiliation will be in your midst. 
: You will store up, but not save; 
: and that which you save I will give up to the sword. 
6:15You will sow, but won’t reap. 
: You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; 
: and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine. 
6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, 
: and all the works of the house of Ahab. 
: You walk in their counsels, 
: that I may make you a ruin, 
: and her inhabitants a hissing; 
: And you will bear the reproach of my people.” 
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==Chapter 7==
7:1
: Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard:
: There is no cluster of grapes to eat.
: My soul desires to eat the early fig.
7:2The godly man has perished out of the earth, 
: and there is no one upright among men.
: They all lie in wait for blood;
: every man hunts his brother with a net.
7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. 
: The ruler and judge ask for a bribe;
: and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul.
: Thus they conspire together.
7:4The best of them is like a brier. 
: The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge.
; The day of your watchmen,
: even your visitation, has come;
: now is the time of their confusion.
7:5Don’t trust in a neighbor. 
: Don’t put confidence in a friend.
: With the woman lying in your embrace,
: be careful of the words of your mouth!
7:6For the son dishonors the father, 
: the daughter rises up against her mother,
: the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
: a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. 
: I will wait for the God of my salvation.
: My God will hear me.
7:8Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. 
: When I fall, I will arise.
: When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
7:9I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, 
: because I have sinned against him,
: until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me.
: He will bring me forth to the light.
: I will see his righteousness.
7:10Then my enemy will see it, 
: and shame will cover her who said to me,
: where is Yahweh your God?
; Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame.
: Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
7:11A day to build your walls— 
: In that day, he will extend your boundary.
7:12In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, 
: and from Egypt even to the River,
: and from sea to sea,
: and mountain to mountain.
7:13Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, 
: for the fruit of their doings.
7:14Shepherd your people with your staff, 
: the flock of your heritage,
: who dwell by themselves in a forest,
: in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed;
: in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
7:15“As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt, 
: I will show them marvelous things.”
7:16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. 
: They will lay their hand on their mouth.
: Their ears will be deaf.
7:17They will lick the dust like a serpent. 
: Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens.
: They will come with fear to Yahweh our God,
: and will be afraid because of you.
7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, 
: and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
; He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
: because he delights in loving kindness.
7:19He will again have compassion on us. 
: He will tread our iniquities under foot;
: and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
7:20You will give truth to Jacob, 
: and mercy to Abraham,
: as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
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