He Gets Us: What Is Greatness?

The Way to Follow Jesus According to the Gospel of Luke

The Bible for Young Explorers: Numbers

Ears to Hear (S3-E7)

The Bible for Young Explorers: Deuteronomy

The Bible for Young Explorers: Exodus

The Bible for Young Explorers: Leviticus

Multiplying the Gospel // Gospel X - Multiplying the Message

Healing in Jesus' Name – Through Your Hands

Creating a Culture of Gospel Multiplication // Gospel X - Multiplying the Gospel

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk2CH">
      <div class="chapter ch26" data-usfm="2CH.26">
         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Uzziah King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:1 </span><span class="ft">Also called </span><span class="fqa">Azariah</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother&#8217;s name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father Amaziah had done. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:5 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; other Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">vision</span></span></span><span class="content"> of God. As long as he sought the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God gave him success.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal and against the Meunites. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, because he had become very powerful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Uzziah had a well-trained army, ready to go out by divisions according to their numbers as mustered by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officials. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The total number of family leaders over the fighting men was 2,600. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Under their command was an army of 307,500 men trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Uzziah provided shields, spears, helmets, coats of armor, bows and slingstones for the entire army. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God, and entered the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to burn incense on the altar of incense. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Azariah the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> followed him in. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They confronted King Uzziah and said, &#8220;It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple, leprosy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 20, 21 and 23.</span></span></span><span class="content"> broke out on his forehead. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him, they saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had afflicted him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in a house where he was relieved of responsibilities</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;leprous, and banned from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.26.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The other events of Uzziah&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Uzziah rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in a cemetery that belonged to the kings, for people said, &#8220;He had leprosy.&#8221; And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk2CH">
      <div class="chapter ch27" data-usfm="2CH.27">
         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jotham King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother&#8217;s name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father Uzziah had done, but unlike him he did not enter the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The people, however, continued their corrupt practices. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and did extensive work on the wall at the hill of Ophel. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He built towns in the hill country of Judah and forts and towers in the wooded areas.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and conquered them. That year the Ammonites paid him a hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, ten thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 1,800 tons or about 1,600 metric tons of wheat</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wheat and ten thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 1,500 tons or about 1,350 metric tons of barley</span></span></span><span class="content"> of barley. The Ammonites brought him the same amount also in the second and third years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jotham grew powerful because he walked steadfastly before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The other events in Jotham&#8217;s reign, including all his wars and the other things he did, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Ahaz his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk2CH">
      <div class="chapter ch28" data-usfm="2CH.28">
         <div class="label">28</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ahaz King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had driven out before the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.28.5"><span class="content">He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah&#8212;because Judah had forsaken the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king&#8217;s son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The men of Israel took captive from their fellow Israelites who were from Judah two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But a prophet of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, &#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And now you intend to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem your slaves. But aren&#8217;t you also guilty of sins against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now listen to me! Send back your fellow Israelites you have taken as prisoners, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger rests on you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then some of the leaders in Ephraim&#8212;Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai&#8212;confronted those who were arriving from the war. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;You must not bring those prisoners here,&#8221; they said, &#8220;or we will be guilty before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the soldiers gave up the prisoners and plunder in the presence of the officials and all the assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:16 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint and Vulgate (see also 2 Kings 16:7) </span><span class="fqa">king</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Assyria for help. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">while the Philistines had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah. They captured and occupied Beth Shemesh, Aijalon and Gederoth, as well as Soko, Timnah and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:19 </span><span class="ft">That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles</span></span></span><span class="content"> for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Tiglath-Pileser</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:20 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Tilgath-Pilneser, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Tiglath-Pileser</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Assyria came to him, but he gave him trouble instead of help. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.28.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, &#8220;Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.&#8221; But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.28.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Ahaz gathered together the furnishings from the temple of God and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple and set up altars at every street corner in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In every town in Judah he built high places to burn sacrifices to other gods and aroused the anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of his ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The other events of his reign and all his ways, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk2CH">
      <div class="chapter ch29" data-usfm="2CH.29">
         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah Purifies the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother&#8217;s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father David had done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and repaired them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and said: &#8220;Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Our parents were unfaithful; they did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s dwelling place and turned their backs on him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, the anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has fallen on Judah and Jerusalem; he has made them an object of dread and horror and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now I intend to make a covenant with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My sons, do not be negligent now, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then these Levites set to work:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">from the Kohathites,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">from the Merarites,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">from the Gershonites,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">from the descendants of Elizaphan,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="content">Shimri and Jeiel;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="content">from the descendants of Asaph,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="content">Zechariah and Mattaniah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">from the descendants of Heman,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="content">Jehiel and Shimei;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="content">from the descendants of Jeduthun,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="content">Shemaiah and Uzziel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as the king had ordered, following the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The priests went into the sanctuary of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to purify it. They brought out to the courtyard of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple everything unclean that they found in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The Levites took it and carried it out to the Kidron Valley. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported: &#8220;We have purified the entire temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for setting out the consecrated bread, with all its articles. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz removed in his unfaithfulness while he was king. They are now in front of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s altar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials together and went up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 23 and 24</span></span></span><span class="content"> for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it against the altar; next they slaughtered the rams and splashed their blood against the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and splashed their blood against the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He stationed the Levites in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king&#8217;s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> through his prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So the Levites stood ready with David&#8217;s instruments, and the priests with their trumpets.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.29.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> began also, accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of David king of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the musicians played and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.29.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CH.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When the offerings were finished, the king and everyone present with him knelt down and worshiped. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.29.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.29.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Hezekiah said, &#8220;You have now dedicated yourselves to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.29.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2CH.29.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams and two hundred male lambs&#8212;all of them for burnt offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2CH.29.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The animals consecrated as sacrifices amounted to six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep and goats. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2CH.29.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings; so their relatives the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests had been consecrated, for the Levites had been more conscientious in consecrating themselves than the priests had been. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2CH.29.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">There were burnt offerings in abundance, together with the fat of the fellowship offerings and the drink offerings that accompanied the burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2CH.29.35"><span class="content">So the service of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was reestablished. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2CH.29.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had brought about for his people, because it was done so quickly.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk2CH">
      <div class="chapter ch30" data-usfm="2CH.30">
         <div class="label">30</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah Celebrates the Passover</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, inviting them to come to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They had not been able to celebrate it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The plan seemed right both to the king and to the whole assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They decided to send a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, calling the people to come to Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. It had not been celebrated in large numbers according to what was written.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At the king&#8217;s command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.30.6"><span class="content">&#8220;People of Israel, return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not be like your parents and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror, as you see. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but people scorned and ridiculed them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and went to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A very large crowd of people assembled in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They removed the altars in Jerusalem and cleared away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they took up their regular positions as prescribed in the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them by the Levites. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Since many in the crowd had not consecrated themselves, the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all those who were not ceremonially clean and could not consecrate their lambs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">consecrate themselves</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who is good, pardon everyone </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">who sets their heart on seeking God&#8212;the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors&#8212;even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard Hezekiah and healed the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great rejoicing, while the Levites and priests praised the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> every day with resounding instruments dedicated to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">priests sang to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> every day, accompanied by the <span class="nd">Lord</span>&#8217;s instruments of praise</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites, who showed good understanding of the service of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For the seven days they ate their assigned portion and offered fellowship offerings and praised</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and confessed their sins to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hezekiah king of Judah provided a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep and goats for the assembly, and the officials provided them with a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep and goats. A great number of priests consecrated themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and also those who resided in Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, for their prayer reached heaven, his holy dwelling place.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="MIC.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah&#8212;the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear, you peoples, all of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">listen, earth and all who live in it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">that the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> may bear witness against you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">the Lord from his holy temple.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Look! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming from his dwelling place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.1.3"><span class="content">he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The mountains melt beneath him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">and the valleys split apart,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">like wax before the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">like water rushing down a slope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All this is because of Jacob&#8217;s transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">because of the sins of the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">What is Jacob&#8217;s transgression?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">Is it not Samaria?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">What is Judah&#8217;s high place?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">Is it not Jerusalem?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">a place for planting vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">I will pour her stones into the valley</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">and lay bare her foundations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All her idols will be broken to pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">I will destroy all her images.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Weeping and Mourning</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Because of this I will weep and wail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">I will go about barefoot and naked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">I will howl like a jackal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">and moan like an owl.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For Samaria&#8217;s plague is incurable;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">it has spread to Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">It has reached the very gate of my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">even to Jerusalem itself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Tell it not in Gath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Gath </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">tell</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">weep not at all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">In Beth Ophrah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Beth Ophrah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of dust.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">roll in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Pass by naked and in shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">you who live in Shaphir.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="fq">Shaphir </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">pleasant.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">Those who live in Zaanan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="fq">Zaanan </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">come out</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">will not come out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">Beth Ezel is in mourning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">it no longer protects you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who live in Maroth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="fq">Maroth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">bitter.</span></span></span><span class="content"> writhe in pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">waiting for relief,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">because disaster has come from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">even to the gate of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You who live in Lachish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">harness fast horses to the chariot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">You are where the sin of Daughter Zion began,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore you will give parting gifts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">to Moresheth Gath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">The town of Akzib</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:14 </span><span class="fq">Akzib </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">deception.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will prove deceptive</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">to the kings of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will bring a conqueror against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">who live in Mareshah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="fq">Mareshah </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">conqueror</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">The nobles of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">will flee to Adullam.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Shave your head in mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="content">for the children in whom you delight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="content">make yourself as bald as the vulture,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="content">for they will go from you into exile.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="MIC.2">
         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Human Plans and God&#8217;s Plans</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to those who plan iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.2.1"><span class="content">to those who plot evil on their beds!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.2.1"><span class="content">At morning&#8217;s light they carry it out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.2.1"><span class="content">because it is in their power to do it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They covet fields and seize them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.2.2"><span class="content">and houses, and take them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.2.2"><span class="content">They defraud people of their homes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.2.2"><span class="content">they rob them of their inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.2.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I am planning disaster against this people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.2.3"><span class="content">from which you cannot save yourselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.2.3"><span class="content">You will no longer walk proudly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.2.3"><span class="content">for it will be a time of calamity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In that day people will ridicule you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.2.4"><span class="content">they will taunt you with this mournful song:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.2.4"><span class="content">&#8216;We are utterly ruined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.2.4"><span class="content">my people&#8217;s possession is divided up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.2.4"><span class="content">He takes it from me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.2.4"><span class="content">He assigns our fields to traitors.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.2.5"><span class="content">to divide the land by lot.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">False Prophets</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not prophesy,&#8221; their prophets say.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not prophesy about these things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.2.6"><span class="content">disgrace will not overtake us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You descendants of Jacob, should it be said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.2.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Does the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> become</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Is the Spirit of the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.2.7"><span class="content">Does he do such things?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.2.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not my words do good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.2.7"><span class="content">to the one whose ways are upright?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Lately my people have risen up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.2.8"><span class="content">like an enemy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.2.8"><span class="content">You strip off the rich robe</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.2.8"><span class="content">from those who pass by without a care,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.2.8"><span class="content">like men returning from battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You drive the women of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.2.9"><span class="content">from their pleasant homes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.2.9"><span class="content">You take away my blessing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.2.9"><span class="content">from their children forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Get up, go away!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.2.10"><span class="content">For this is not your resting place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.2.10"><span class="content">because it is defiled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.2.10"><span class="content">it is ruined, beyond all remedy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If a liar and deceiver comes and says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.2.11"><span class="content">&#8216;I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.2.11"><span class="content">that would be just the prophet for this people!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Deliverance Promised</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will surely gather all of you, Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.2.12"><span class="content">I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.2.12"><span class="content">I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.2.12"><span class="content">like a flock in its pasture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.2.12"><span class="content">the place will throng with people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The One who breaks open the way will go up before them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.2.13"><span class="content">they will break through the gate and go out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.2.13"><span class="content">Their King will pass through before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.2.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at their head.&#8221;</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="MIC.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Leaders and Prophets Rebuked</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, you leaders of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">you rulers of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">Should you not embrace justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you who hate good and love evil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="content">who tear the skin from my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="content">and the flesh from their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">who eat my people&#8217;s flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">strip off their skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">and break their bones in pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">who chop them up like meat for the pan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">like flesh for the pot?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then they will cry out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">but he will not answer them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">At that time he will hide his face from them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">because of the evil they have done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">&#8220;As for the prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">who lead my people astray,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">they proclaim &#8216;peace&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">if they have something to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">but prepare to wage war against anyone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">who refuses to feed them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore night will come over you, without visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">and darkness, without divination.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">The sun will set for the prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">and the day will go dark for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The seers will be ashamed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">and the diviners disgraced.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">They will all cover their faces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">because there is no answer from God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But as for me, I am filled with power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">with the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">and with justice and might,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">to declare to Jacob his transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">to Israel his sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">you rulers of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">who despise justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">and distort all that is right;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">who build Zion with bloodshed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.3.10"><span class="content">and Jerusalem with wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Her leaders judge for a bribe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">her priests teach for a price,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">and her prophets tell fortunes for money.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">Yet they look for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s support and say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Is not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> among us?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">No disaster will come upon us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore because of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="content">Zion will be plowed like a field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="content">Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.3.12"><span class="content">the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="MIC.4">
         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the last days</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple will be established</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">as the highest of the mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">it will be exalted above the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">and peoples will stream to it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Many nations will come and say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Come, let us go up to the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">to the temple of the God of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">He will teach us his ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">so that we may walk in his paths.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">The law will go out from Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> from Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He will judge between many peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">They will beat their swords into plowshares</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">and their spears into pruning hooks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">Nation will not take up sword against nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">nor will they train for war anymore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Everyone will sit under their own vine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">and under their own fig tree,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">and no one will make them afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All the nations may walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">in the name of their gods,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">but we will walk in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">our God for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Plan</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">&#8220;I will gather the lame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">I will assemble the exiles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">and those I have brought to grief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will make the lame my remnant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">those driven away a strong nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will rule over them in Mount Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">from that day and forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As for you, watchtower of the flock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">stronghold</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">hill</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">the former dominion will be restored to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Why do you now cry aloud&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">have you no king</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">King</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">Has your ruler</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Ruler</span></span></span><span class="content"> perished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">like a woman in labor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">for now you must leave the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">to camp in the open field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">You will go to Babylon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">there you will be rescued.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">There the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will redeem you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">out of the hand of your enemies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now many nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">are gathered against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">They say, &#8220;Let her be defiled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">let our eyes gloat over Zion!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But they do not know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">the thoughts of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">they do not understand his plan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">for I will give you horns of iron;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">I will give you hooves of bronze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">and you will break to pieces many nations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.4.13"><span class="content">their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="MIC.5">
         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Promised Ruler From Bethlehem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">5:0 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:14, and 5:2-15 is numbered 5:1-14.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Marshal your troops now, city of troops,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.5.1"><span class="content">for a siege is laid against us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.5.1"><span class="content">They will strike Israel&#8217;s ruler</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.5.1"><span class="content">on the cheek with a rod.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.5.2"><span class="content">though you are small among the clans</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">rulers</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.5.2"><span class="content">out of you will come for me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.5.2"><span class="content">one who will be ruler over Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.5.2"><span class="content">whose origins are from of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.5.2"><span class="content">from ancient times.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore Israel will be abandoned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.5.3"><span class="content">until the time when she who is in labor bears a son,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.5.3"><span class="content">and the rest of his brothers return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.5.3"><span class="content">to join the Israelites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He will stand and shepherd his flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.5.4"><span class="content">in the strength of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.5.4"><span class="content">in the majesty of the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.5.4"><span class="content">And they will live securely, for then his greatness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.5.4"><span class="content">will reach to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And he will be our peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.5.5"><span class="content">when the Assyrians invade our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.5.5"><span class="content">and march through our fortresses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.5.5"><span class="content">We will raise against them seven shepherds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.5.5"><span class="content">even eight commanders,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">who will rule</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">crush</span></span></span><span class="content"> the land of Assyria with the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.5.6"><span class="content">the land of Nimrod with drawn sword.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Nimrod in its gates</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.5.6"><span class="content">He will deliver us from the Assyrians</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.5.6"><span class="content">when they invade our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.5.6"><span class="content">and march across our borders.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The remnant of Jacob will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.5.7"><span class="content">in the midst of many peoples</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.5.7"><span class="content">like dew from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.5.7"><span class="content">like showers on the grass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.5.7"><span class="content">which do not wait for anyone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.5.7"><span class="content">or depend on man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.5.8"><span class="content">in the midst of many peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.5.8"><span class="content">like a lion among the beasts of the forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.5.8"><span class="content">like a young lion among flocks of sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.5.8"><span class="content">which mauls and mangles as it goes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.5.8"><span class="content">and no one can rescue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.5.9"><span class="content">and all your foes will be destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.5.10"><span class="content">&#8220;I will destroy your horses from among you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.5.10"><span class="content">and demolish your chariots.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will destroy the cities of your land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.5.11"><span class="content">and tear down all your strongholds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will destroy your witchcraft</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.5.12"><span class="content">and you will no longer cast spells.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will destroy your idols</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.5.13"><span class="content">and your sacred stones from among you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.5.13"><span class="content">you will no longer bow down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.5.13"><span class="content">to the work of your hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.5.14"><span class="content">when I demolish your cities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will take vengeance in anger and wrath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.5.15"><span class="content">on the nations that have not obeyed me.&#8221;</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="MIC.6">
         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Case Against Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen to what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Stand up, plead my case before the mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="content">let the hills hear what you have to say.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear, you mountains, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s accusation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a case against his people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">he is lodging a charge against Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;My people, what have I done to you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.6.3"><span class="content">How have I burdened you? Answer me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I brought you up out of Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">and redeemed you from the land of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">I sent Moses to lead you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">also Aaron and Miriam.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My people, remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">what Balak king of Moab plotted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">and what Balaam son of Beor answered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">that you may know the righteous acts of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">With what shall I come before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">and bow down before the exalted God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">with calves a year old?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Will the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be pleased with thousands of rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">And what does the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> require of you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">To act justly and to love mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">and to walk humbly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">prudently</span></span></span><span class="content"> with your God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Guilt and Punishment</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Listen! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is calling to the city&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="content">and to fear your name is wisdom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Heed the rod and the One who appointed it.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.6.10"><span class="content">and the short ephah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:10 </span><span class="ft">An ephah was a dry measure.</span></span></span><span class="content"> which is accursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.6.11"><span class="content">with a bag of false weights?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your rich people are violent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="content">your inhabitants are liars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="content">and their tongues speak deceitfully.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore, I have begun to destroy you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.6.13"><span class="content">to ruin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you; / I will ruin</span></span></span><span class="content"> you because of your sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You will eat but not be satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">your stomach will still be empty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">You will store up but save nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">because what you save</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will give to the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will plant but not harvest;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="content">you will press olives but not use the oil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="content">you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You have observed the statutes of Omri</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">and all the practices of Ahab&#8217;s house;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">you have followed their traditions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">Therefore I will give you over to ruin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">and your people to derision;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">you will bear the scorn of the nations.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">scorn due my people</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="MIC.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Misery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What misery is mine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">I am like one who gathers summer fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">at the gleaning of the vineyard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">there is no cluster of grapes to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">none of the early figs that I crave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The faithful have been swept from the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">not one upright person remains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">Everyone lies in wait to shed blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">they hunt each other with nets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Both hands are skilled in doing evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the ruler demands gifts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the judge accepts bribes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the powerful dictate what they desire&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">they all conspire together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The best of them is like a brier,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">The day God visits you has come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">the day your watchmen sound the alarm.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">Now is the time of your confusion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not trust a neighbor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">put no confidence in a friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">Even with the woman who lies in your embrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">guard the words of your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For a son dishonors his father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter rises up against her mother,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a man&#8217;s enemies are the members of his own household.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But as for me, I watch in hope for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">I wait for God my Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">my God will hear me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Will Rise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not gloat over me, my enemy!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I have fallen, I will rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I sit in darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be my light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because I have sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will bear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">until he pleads my case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">and upholds my cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">He will bring me out into the light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will see his righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then my enemy will see it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">and will be covered with shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">she who said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">My eyes will see her downfall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">even now she will be trampled underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">like mire in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The day for building your walls will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="content">the day for extending your boundaries.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In that day people will come to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">even from Egypt to the Euphrates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from mountain to mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="content">as the result of their deeds.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prayer and Praise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Shepherd your people with your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">the flock of your inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">which lives by itself in a forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">in fertile pasturelands.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the middle of Carmel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">as in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;As in the days when you came out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="content">I will show them my wonders.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Nations will see and be ashamed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">deprived of all their power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">They will put their hands over their mouths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">and their ears will become deaf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They will lick dust like a snake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">like creatures that crawl on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">They will come trembling out of their dens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">they will turn in fear to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">and will be afraid of you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Who is a God like you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">who pardons sin and forgives the transgression</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">of the remnant of his inheritance?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">You do not stay angry forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">but delight to show mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will again have compassion on us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">you will tread our sins underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You will be faithful to Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">and show love to Abraham,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">as you pledged on oath to our ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkJUD">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="JUD.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="content">To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">by</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jesus Christ:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JUD.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God&#8217;s holy people. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">individuals who were marked out for condemnation</span></span></span><span class="content"> long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JUD.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Jesus</span></span></span><span class="content"> at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JUD.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling&#8212;these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JUD.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JUD.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, &#8220;The Lord rebuke you!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Jude is alluding to the Jewish Testament of Moses (approximately the first century <span class="sc">a.d.</span>).</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct&#8212;as irrational animals do&#8212;will destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam&#8217;s error; they have been destroyed in Korah&#8217;s rebellion.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JUD.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm&#8212;shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted&#8212;twice dead. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JUD.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: &#8220;See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JUD.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="ft">From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century <span class="sc">b.c.</span>)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Call to Persevere</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JUD.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JUD.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said to you, &#8220;In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JUD.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">keep yourselves in God&#8217;s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JUD.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Be merciful to those who doubt; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear&#8212;hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:23 </span><span class="ft">The Greek manuscripts of these verses vary at several points.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doxology</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JUD.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JUD.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.</span></span></div>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

The Bible in 90 DaysSample

Scripture

About this Plan

Related plans