Mic.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?
[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] 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 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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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] 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.
[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.
Mic.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.
[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.
[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] 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.
[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.
[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;
[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.
[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.
[9] Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no
king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
[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.
[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 shall gather them as the sheaves
into the floor.
[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.
Mic.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.
[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.
[3] Therefore will he give them up, until the time that