noyes Micah:1-4
noyes@Micah:1:1 @ The word of Jehovah, which came to Micah, the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah; which was revealed to him concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
noyes@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, all ye nations, Give ear, O earth, and all that is therein! The Lord, Jehovah, appeareth as a witness against you, The Lord from his holy palace.
noyes@Micah:1:3 @ Behold, Jehovah cometh forth from his dwellingplace; He cometh down, and advanceth upon the high places of the earth.
noyes@Micah:1:4 @ The mountains melt under him, And the valleys cleave asunder, Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.
noyes@Micah:1:5 @ For the transgression of Jacob is all this, And for the sin of the house of Israel. Where is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not at Samaria? And where are the high places of Judah? Are they not at Jerusalem?
noyes@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore will I make Samaria a heap of stones in the field, A place for the planting of a vineyard; I will pour down her stones into the valley, And lay bare her foundations.
noyes@Micah:1:7 @ All her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, And all the hire of her harlotry shall be burned with fire, And all her idols will I destroy. For from the hire of a harlot did she gather her ornaments, And to the hire of a harlot shall they return.
noyes@Micah:1:8 @ Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will wail like the jackal, And mourn like the ostrich.
noyes@Micah:1:9 @ For her wound is mortal; It extendeth to Judah; It reacheth to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
noyes@Micah:1:10 @ Tell it not in Gath! weep not in Acco! In BethAprah roll yourselves in the dust!
noyes@Micah:1:11 @ Pass on, thou inhabitant of Saphir, naked and in shame! The inhabitant of Zaanan no more goeth out; The grief of BethAzel denieth you an abode.
noyes@Micah:1:12 @ The inhabitant of Maroth mourneth for his goods, For evil came down from Jehovah to the gates of Jerusalem.
noyes@Micah:1:13 @ Bind the chariot to the courser, O inhabitant of Lachish! Thou wast the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; In thee were found the transgressions of Israel.
noyes@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore shalt thou resign the possession of Moresheth of Gath; The houses of Achzib shall disappoint the kings of Israel.
noyes@Micah:1:15 @ A possessor will I bring to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah; The glory of Israel shall flee to Adullam.
noyes@Micah:1:16 @ Make thyself bald, cut off thy locks, for the children of thy love; Enlarge thy baldness like the eagle; For they have gone from thee into captivity.
noyes@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to them that devise iniquity, And contrive evil upon their beds; When the morning is light, they practise it, Because it is in the power of their hand.
noyes@Micah:2:2 @ They covet fields, and take them by violence; Houses, and take them from their owners. They defraud a man of his house; Yea, a man of his inheritance.
noyes@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this race do I meditate evil. From which ye shall not remove your necks, nor lift up your heads; For it shall be a time of evil.
noyes@Micah:2:4 @ In that day shall this song be uttered concerning thee. And this sad lamentation be made: "We are utterly laid waste; He hath changed the portion of my people; How hath he torn it from me! He hath taken away and distributed our fields."
noyes@Micah:2:5 @ Behold, thou shalt have no one henceforth Who shall draw out a line for a portion, In the congregation of Jehovah.
noyes@Micah:2:6 @ "Prophesy not," "O ye that prophesy!" If they prophesy not concerning these things, The shame will not depart.
noyes@Micah:2:7 @ O ye that are called the house of Jacob, Is the spirit of Jehovah impatient? Are these his doings? Are not my words kind to him that walketh uprightly?
noyes@Micah:2:8 @ But long since hath my people risen against me, as an enemy; Ye strip the mantle from the garment of those that pass by securely, as men returning from war.
noyes@Micah:2:9 @ The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant abodes; Ye deprive their children forever of the glory which I gave them.
noyes@Micah:2:10 @ Arise and depart; This land is not your rest! On account of its pollution shall it be wasted, And given to utter destruction.
noyes@Micah:2:11 @ If a man follow wind, and invent falsehood, and say, "I will prophesy to thee of wine and strong drink!" He will be the prophet for this people.
noyes@Micah:2:12 @ Yet will I fully gather thee, O Jacob, I will surely assemble the residue of Israel! I will put them together like sheep in a fold; Like a flock in their fold shall they be in a tumult on account of the multitude of men.
noyes@Micah:2:13 @ He that forceth a way goeth before them; They force their way, and pass through the gate, And go forth by it; And their king goeth before them, Even Jehovah at the head of them.
noyes@Micah:3:1 @ I also said: Hear, O ye heads of Jacob, And ye leaders of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to administer justice?
noyes@Micah:3:2 @ But ye hate what is good, and love what is evil; Ye tear from men their skin, Yea, their flesh from their bones;
noyes@Micah:3:3 @ Ye devour the flesh of my people, And strip them of their skin, And break their bones, And cut them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh for the caldron?
noyes@Micah:3:4 @ Then shall they cry to Jehovah, But he will not hear them; Yea, at that time will he hide his face from them, Because they have done iniquity.
noyes@Micah:3:5 @ Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets, who deceive my people, Who, while they bite with their teeth, proclaim peace, But who, if one fill not their mouths, prepare war against him:
noyes@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore shall night come upon you, so that ye shall have no vision, And darkness, so that ye shall not divine; The sun shall go down upon the prophets, And the day shall be dark to them.
noyes@Micah:3:7 @ Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded, So that all of them shall hide their faces, Because there is no answer from God.
noyes@Micah:3:8 @ But I am full of power, even of the spirit of Jehovah; Full of uprightness and courage, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.
noyes@Micah:3:9 @ O hear this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, And ye leaders of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all equity,
noyes@Micah:3:10 @ Who build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity!
noyes@Micah:3:11 @ Her heads judge for reward, And her priests teach for hire, And her prophets divine for money, And yet they lean upon Jehovah, saying, "Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us."
noyes@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore because of you shall Zion be ploughed as a field, And Jerusalem become heaps of stones, And the mountain of the temple like the heights of a forest.
noyes@Micah:4:1 @ But it shall come to pass in the last days That the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established at the head of the mountains, And exalted above the hills; And the nations shall flow to it.
noyes@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall go, saying, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, To the house of the God of Jacob, That he may teach us his ways, And that we may walk in his paths!" For from Zion shall go forth a law, And the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
noyes@Micah:4:3 @ He shall be a judge of many nations, And an umpire of many kingdoms afar off. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, And their spears into pruninghooks; Nation shall not lift up the sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.
noyes@Micah:4:4 @ But they shall sit every one under his vine, And under his figtree, And none shall make them afraid; The mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.
noyes@Micah:4:5 @ Though all the nations walk every one in the name of its God, Yet will we walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.
noyes@Micah:4:6 @ In that day, saith Jehovah, I will gather the halting, And the far scattered I will assemble, And those whom I have afflicted.
noyes@Micah:4:7 @ I will make the halting a remnant, And the far scattered a strong nation; And Jehovah shall reign over them in mount Zion, Henceforth, even forever.
noyes@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, O tower of the flock, O hill of the daughter of Zion, to thee it shall come, To thee shall come the former dominion, Even the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
noyes@Micah:4:9 @ And now why dost thou cry aloud? Is there no king within thee? Have thy counsellors perished, That pangs have taken hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?
noyes@Micah:4:10 @ Yea, writhe, and be in anguish, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail! For now shalt thou go forth from the city, and dwell in the field; Thou shalt go even to Babylon; Yet there shalt thou be delivered. Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
noyes@Micah:4:11 @ Now many nations gather themselves against thee, Who say, Let her be polluted, And let our eyes gaze upon Zion!
noyes@Micah:4:12 @ But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, And understand not his purposes; For he gathereth them as sheaves into the thrashingfloor.
noyes@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thrash, O daughter of Zion! For I will make thy horns iron, And thy hoofs brass; Thou shalt beat in pieces many nations, And thou shalt devote their spoils to Jehovah, Their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
noyes@Micah:5:1 @ Yet now gather yourselves in troops, O people of troops! They lay siege against us; With a rod they smite the cheek of the judge of Israel.
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