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1 Scroll 11 The 12 Prophets (Micah).
The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite,
in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hizkiah, kings of Judah,
which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

2 Hear, all ye people; listen, Earth, and all that in it is:
and let the Lord JeHoVaH be witness against you, the Lord from His Holy Temple.

3 For behold, the LORD comes forth from His place, and will come down,
and tread upon the high places of the Earth.

4 And the mountains shall be melted under Him,
and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire,
and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

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?

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

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 it from the hire of a whore,
and they shall return to the hire of a whore.

8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked:
I will make a wailing like the monsters, and mourning as the ostriches.

9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come to Judah;
he has come to the gate of My people, even to Jerusalem.

10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in Beth-Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

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Pass ye away, Thou inhabitress of Saphir, having Thy shame exposed:
the inhabitress of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive from you his standing.

12 For the inhabitress of Maroth waited anxiously for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

13 Thou inhabitress of Lachish, bind the chariot to the mule: she is the beginning of the sin to the Daughter of Zion:
for the transgressions of Israel were found in Thee.

14 Therefore shall Thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

15 Yet will I bring an heir to Thee, inhabitress of Mareshah: he shall come to Adullam the glory of Israel.

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.

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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.

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.

3 Therefore thus says 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.

4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a grievous lamentation,
and say, We are utterly wasted: He has changed the portion of My people:
how has He removed it from me! Turning away He has divided our fields.

5 Therefore Thou shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the Congregation of the LORD.

6 Do not drop words as they drop! They shall not drop words to them, that they shall not take shame.

7 Thou that are 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 walks uprightly?

8 But yesterday My people has risen up as an enemy:
ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse to war.

9 The women of My people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses;
from their children have ye taken away My glory forever.

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

11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood does lie,
saying, I will drop words to Thee of wine and of shekar[strong drink]; he shall even be the dropper of this people.

12 I will surely assemble, 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 middle of their fold:
they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

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.

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1 I said, Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob,
and ye princes of the House of Israel:
Is it not for you to know judgment?

2 Who hate the good, and love the evil;
who pluck off their skin from them,
and their flesh from off their bones.

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.

4 Then shall they cry to the LORD, but He will not reply them:
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that make My people astray,
that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace;
and he who puts not into their mouths, they even prepare against him war:

6 therefore night 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.

7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded:
yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of GOD.

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.

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.

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

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, Is not the LORD among us?
No evil can come upon us.

12 Therefore shall Zion for your sakes be ploughed as a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps,
and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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1 But in the Last Days it shall come to pass,
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. Isa 2:2

2 And many nations shall come, and say,
Come, and let us go up to the Mount 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. Isa 2:3

3 He shall judge among many people,
and rebuke strong nations afar off;
and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks:
nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. Isa 2:4

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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 Sabaoth has spoken.

5 For all peoples will walk every one in the name of his god,
and we will walk in the Name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

6 In that day, said the LORD,
I will assemble her that halts, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

7 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 now on even forever.

8 Thou, 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.

9 Now why do Thou cry aloud? Is there no king in Thee?
Has Thy counsellor perished?
For pangs have taken Thee as a woman in travail.

10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, Daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail:
for now shall Thou go forth from the city, and Thou shall dwell in the field,
and Thou shall go even to Babylon; there shall Thou be delivered;
there the LORD shall redeem Thee from the hand of Thy enemies.

11 Now also many nations are gathered against Thee,
that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD,
neither understand they His counsel:
for He will gather them as sheaves into the threshing-floor.

13 Arise and thresh, Daughter of Zion:
for I will make Thy horn iron,
and I will make Thy hoofs bronze:
and Thou shall beat in pieces many people:
and I will consecrate their gain to JeHoVaH,
and their substance to the Lord of all the Earth.

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1 Now gather thyself in troops, daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us:
they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

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And Thou Beth-lehem (Ephratah) in the land of Judah,
are not the least among the thousand chiefs of Judah;
for out of Thee shall come a Ruler that shall shepherd My people of Israel; Mat 2:6
whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting days.

3 Therefore will He give them up, until the time that she who travails has brought forth:
then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

4 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.

5 And this 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.

6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod in its entrances: thus will He deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our borders.

7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the middle of many people as a dew from the LORD,
as the showers upon the grass, that tarries not for man, nor waits for the sons of men.

8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the gentiles in the middle of many people;
as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep:
who, if he goes through, both treads down, and tears in pieces, and none can deliver.

9 Thy hand shall be lifted up upon Thy adversaries, and all Thy enemies shall be cut off.

10 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD,
that I will cut off Thy horses out of the middle of Thee, and I will destroy Thy chariots:

11 I will cut off the cities of Thy land, and throw down all Thy strong holds:

12 I will cut off sorceries out of Thy hand; and Thou shall have no more observers of clouds:

13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and Thy pillars out of the middle of Thee;
and Thou shall no more worship the work of Thy hands.

14 I will pluck up Thy Asherim out of the middle of Thee: so will I destroy Thy cities.

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

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1 Hear ye now what the LORD said;
Arise, contend Thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear Thy voice.

2 Hear ye, mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the Earth:
for the LORD has a controversy with His people, and He will plead with Israel.

3 My people, what have I done to Thee? And wherein have I wearied Thee? Testify against Me,

4 for I brought Thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed Thee from the house of servants;
and I sent before Thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

5 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.

6 With what 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?

7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with myriads of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has shown Thee, man, what is good; and what the LORD does require of Thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Thy God?

9 The LORD's voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see Thy Name:
hear ye the rod, and who has appointed it.

10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant ephah[measure] that is abominable?

11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances,
and with the bag of deceitful weight-stones?

12 For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies,
and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

13 Therefore also will I make Thee sick in smiting Thee,
in making Thee desolate because of Thy sins.

14 Thou shall eat, but not be satisfied;
and Thy casting down shall be in the middle of Thee;
and Thou shall take hold, but shall not deliver;
and that which Thou deliver will I give up to the sword.

15 Thou shall sow, but Thou shall not reap;
Thou shall tread the olives, but Thou shall not anoint Thee with oil;
and new wine, but shall not drink wine.

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 her inhabitants a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of My people.

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1 Woe is me! For I have been as when they have gathered the summer fruits,
as the grape-gleanings of the vintage:
there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruit.

2 The Saint has perished from 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.

3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly,
the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward;
and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

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 comes; now shall be their perplexity.

5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide:
keep the doors of Thy mouth from her that lies in Thy bosom.

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For the son at variance against his father,
and the daughter against her mother,
and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; Mat 10:35
and a man's enemies will be they of his own household. Mat 10:36

7 Therefore I will look to the LORD;
I will wait for the God of my Salvation:
my God will hear me.

8 Rejoice not against me, my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise;
when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a Light to me.

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, and I shall behold His righteousness.

10 Then she who is My enemy shall see 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.

11 In the day that Thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

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.

13 Nevertheless the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

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Feed Thy people with Thy rod, the flock of Thy heritage,
who dwell solitarily in the wood, in the middle of Carmel:
let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 According to the days of Thy departure from the land of Egypt will I show to him marvellous things.

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.

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.

18 Who is a God like to Thee, that pardons iniquity,
and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
He retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

19 He will turn back, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities;
and Thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

20 Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham,
which Thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.