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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

1:10 Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the

house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

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.

1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but

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

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.

1:14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the

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

1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot

in the congregation of the LORD.

2:6 Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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].

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.

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;

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.

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.

4:9 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.

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.

4:11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say,

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

5:9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and

all thine enemies shall be cut off.

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:

5:11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down

all thy strong holds:

5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou

shalt have no [more] soothsayers:

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.

5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so

will I destroy thy cities.

5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the

heathen, such as they have not heard.

6:1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before

the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

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.

6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I

wearied thee? testify against me.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of

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

6:11 Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and

with the bag of deceitful weights?

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.

6:13 Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee, in

making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

7:7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God

of my salvation: my God will hear me.

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.

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.

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.

7:11 [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day

shall the decree be far removed.

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.

7:13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them

that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

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.

7:15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of

Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous [things].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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