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         <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>
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         <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>
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