The prophetic book of Micah
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Verse by verse, account of the book of Micah.

Micah: chapter 1

¹The Word of the Lord that came to Micah during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, three kings of Judah, concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. ²May all the people of the earth hear and let the Lord God from His holy temple be a witness against you. ³For behold, the day is coming when the LORD will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. ⁴Like wax before a fire, the mountains will melt before Him and the valleys will split open. ⁵All this because of the transgressions and the sins of Israel. The transgressions of Israel are the idolatries of Samaria, that you do within the high places of Judah, which is Jerusalem. ⁶The LORD will make Samaria a heap of ruins, the land to be used as open fields. He shall pull down her stone walls and uncover her foundations. ⁷All her carved images shall be destroyed and all the money exchanged in pay for harlots shall go up in smoke, thus the tainted money shall be rendered useless.

⁸Therefore, I Micah, will wail and howl like a jackal and shall go around in no more than a loincloth proclaiming this prophecy. ⁹For Samaria's wounds are far too deep to be healed and now they have spread to Judah, to My people in Jerusalem. ¹⁰Do not tell of this judgment to the Philistine cities due to their gloating, yet shamefully cover yourself in dust. ¹¹And as you are taken captive by the Philistines, enter into shame. ¹²For the inhabitants of Judah waited for good, but disaster came down from the Lord. ¹³Inhabitants of the city of Lachish within Judah, harness the chariot to the stallion. You are the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the sins of Israel have been found in you. ¹⁴Therefore as you enter into captivity you shall give Judah parting gifts, (NOTE: The gifts were given to the city of this prophets). For towns within Israel are now places of deceit and deception unto the kings of Israel. ¹⁵Yet the LORD will bring an heir to you Judah and the glory of Israel shall return. ¹⁶Therefore, priests of Israel mourn as if you were bald, because of the sins of your people, for Judah and Israel shall both go into captivity.

Micah: chapter 2

¹Woe to those who scheme and plan wickedness and evil, at break of day they practice it because it is within the power of their own hands. ²They convent other people's fields and houses, using violence to take them, oppressing their neighbor by taking his inheritance. ³Therefore, says the LORD; I am against this family from which there is no escape. Neither shall they walk haughty, for this is a most evil time. ⁴In that day people shall taunt you with proverbs and you shall lament. Saying we are utterly destroyed, God has changed the heritage of His people and we are cut off and our enemies are dividing up our land. ⁵Therefore when you return from captivity, you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot, as in the days of your fathers, in the assembly of the LORD.

⁶Your false prophets say to those who preach; Do not babble, for no harm will come to us. ⁷You who claim the house of Israel, do the Words of the LORD not reach you? Are these not Gods doings? To those who walk uprightly, the Words of the LORD are beneficial. ⁸Lately My people have become as an enemy to Me, they have defiled their beautiful garments, as if they have come from a bloody battle, as they confidently pass by. ⁹The women of My people have been driven out of their homes and from their young children, you have taken away My glory forever. ¹⁰Arise and depart, for this is not the promised rest, the land is defiled and shall be destroyed. ¹¹Lying prophets full of wine and drink are what you want and what you accept, you receive these prophets, but they are babbling fools.

¹²Yet there will come a time when I will gather all of Israel even her remnant to Myself, I will bring them together as a flock and there shall be a great commotion because of the vast number of people. ¹³The One whom breaks through has come up before them and their King has passed through before them, for their LORD is at the head of them.

Micah: chapter 3

¹And I Micah said; Hear me, you heads and rulers of Israel! Do you not know justice? ²You men who hate good and love evil, you abuse the LORD's people demanding all you can get out of them. ³Even to their personal harm, such as chopping them up as meat for your pots. ⁴Then they cry out to the LORD, but because their deeds have also been evil, He will not hear them and will even hide His face from them. ⁵Thus says the LORD concerning false prophets that led His people astray, assuring them of peace as long as the payment is there but speaking of war and disaster when there is no payment. ⁶Therefore, no one shall prophesy, nether false prophets or true. ⁷The prophets shall be ashamed and shall cover their lips for there shall be no answer from God. ⁸But as for me, (Micah), I am full of power of the Spirit of God. Having discernment and might and to you, I shall declare Israel's transgressions and sin.

⁹Now, hear this, rulers and heads of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is good. ¹⁰They seek the kingdom through bloodshed and their crafty ways. ¹¹Your leaders are corrupt and can be bribed. Your priests and your prophets speak for pay yet they all say; The LORD is with us and no harm can befall us. ¹²Therefore because of this Jerusalem shall be destroyed and the mountains of the temple shall become as bare hills of the forest.

Micah: chapter 4

¹In the latter days, it shall be that the LORD's house shall be established on Mount Zion, it shall be exalted above the hills and many people shall come to it. ²Many nations shall desire to go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the God of Israel and learn His ways and to walk in His paths. For the law and the Word of the LORD shall go forth. ³And the LORD shall judge between all people, rendering decisions on strong nations. Nations shall then use their weapons for peace and war shall cease, neither shall they even learn of war anymore. ⁴Every man shall reside in his own house and eat of his own provision without fear, for the LORD has spoken. ⁵For now, all people walk in the name of their god, but we walk in the name of the LORD our God forever.

⁶In that day says the LORD; I will assemble the lame, the outcast and those who I have afflicted. ⁷The lame shall become a remnant and the outcast a strong nation and I will reign over them from Mount Zion, forever. ⁸Jerusalem, the watchtower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, in that day your first dominion shall be restored back to you.

⁹But now you scream in terror, where are your leaders? For pains have seized you like a woman in labor. ¹⁰Be in pain and labor to bring forth, for now you shall go into captivity, to Babylon. But from there the LORD will deliver you from the hands of your enemies. ¹¹Right now, many nations have gathered against you, who would like to see you defiled, so their eyes can look upon Zion. ¹²But the other nations do not know the ways and thoughts or understand the counsel of the LORD, for He will gather them, as sheaves on the threshing floor. ¹³People of Israel, Arise in judgment of the other nations, for the LORD will make you strong for battle. You shall beat into pieces many people and their substance shall be devoted to the LORD of the whole earth.

Micah: chapter 5

¹Israel now, gather yourself together for battle, for the LORD has set your enemy against you and they have struck down the judge of Israel. ²But you, Bethlehem and Ephrathah even though you are small among the thousands of Judah, out of you shall come forth His Shepherd to be the everlasting Ruler of Israel. ³Therefore the LORD shall give you over, until the time is complete and you have brought forth, then shall the remnant of His brethren return as the children of Israel. ⁴He shall then feed His flock in the strength and the majesty of the LORD His God and they shall stand, for then He shall be great to the ends of the earth.

⁵And the Messiah shall be our peace, when Assyria shall come into our land. When the enemy treads upon our palaces, seven shepherds and eight anointed men shall then rise up against them. ⁶And they shall destroy the land of Assyria with the sword, thus the LORD shall deliver us from Assyria when the enemy comes into our land. ⁷The remnant of Israel shall then be scattered throughout many nations. ⁸And the remnant of the LORD's people shall be among many Gentile people, just as a young lion among a flock of sheep, that no one can deliver them from. ⁹Your hand shall be high above your enemies and you shall destroy them.

¹⁰In that day, says the LORD; I will cut down your horses of war and destroy your chariots. ¹¹I will throw down your strongholds. ¹²And cut off all your sorcerers and fortunetellers. ¹³I will cut off your idols and sacred high places from your midst, until you no longer worship the work of your hands. ¹⁴And I will destroy your false images along with your cities. ¹⁵In anger and with great haste I will execute My vengeance on the nations that have not hearkened to My voice.

Micah: chapter 6

¹Hear now what the LORD says; Get up and plead your case before the mountains and the hills. ²Let the mountains and the foundations of the earth hear the LORD's complaint, for the LORD does have a complaint against His people and He will contend with Israel. ³My people, what have I done to you and how have I wearied you?, Answer Me. ⁴For I redeemed you from the house of bondage, bringing you out of Egypt. And I gave you leaders of Moses, Aaron and Miriam to follow. ⁵Remember when Balaam was paid to curse you, but I had him bless you instead. All so that you may know the righteousness and saving acts of the LORD.

⁶You then say, with what shall we come before the LORD with to worship God Most High? Shall we bring burnt offerings, calves of a year old? ⁷Is the LORD pleased with great abundance of offerings? Shall we sacrifice our firstborn child, for the sin of our soul? ⁸The LORD has made known to us what is good and what He requires of us, is to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

⁹The LORD cries out to the city of Jerusalem, they who are wise will hear and fear, for destruction is on its way, for the LORD has appointed it. ¹⁰For the homes of the wicked are full of ungodly treasures, obtained through lies and deception and that is an abomination to the LORD. ¹¹Shall these people be counted holy with their bag full of deceitful weights? ¹²The rich men are full of violence and all have a lying tongue. ¹³Therefore the LORD shall strike them with sickness, because of their sins and their place shall become desolate. ¹⁴They shall eat but never be satisfied. Hunger shall be with them and what they do manage to save, the LORD shall destroy it. ¹⁵They shall plant but not reap a harvest, they shall plant olives but not anoint themselves with oil and make sweet wine but not drink of it. ¹⁶For they have kept the works of the wicked, worshiping and following the council of false Gods. Therefore, the LORD will make your place a wasteland and an astonishment to your people and you shall bear the mockery and reproach as people of the LORD.

Micah: chapter 7

¹Woe is me! The season has passed, that my heart desires. ²The godly men have perished from the earth, for there are no upright men among them. And now every man is out for blood, as he hunts his own brother. ³Everyone has his hand out, wanting either a gift or a bribe as they utter their evil desires and scheme together. ⁴The best of them is like a thorn, the most upright among them is corrupt. But, the day of the watchman and their visitation will come and so also shall come their confusion. ⁵Do not trust a friend, do not put your confidence in your companion, guard what you speak even to your closest confident. ⁶For a man's enemies shall be of his own household, sons shall dishonors their fathers and daughter shall be against their mother. ⁷Therefore, Israel, I will look and wait with hope and expectation for the God of my salvation and my God shall hear me.

⁸Let not my enemies rejoice over me, for when I fall, I will rise again, even when I sit in darkness the LORD will be my light. ⁹I will bear the wrath of the LORD, for I have sinned against Him. Until He pleads my case and executes justice then He will bring me forth into the light and I shall see His righteousness. ¹⁰Then my enemy shall see and be ashamed, who said to me; Where is the LORD your God? For they will be beaten down and disgraced.

¹¹The day when the walls are to be built, the word shall go out far and wide. ¹²In that day, they shall come to you from foreign lands and fortified cities, from the sea and the mountains. ¹³Yet before this happens, the land shall be desolate because of the wicked deeds of the people and the people shall reap the fruit of their deeds.

¹⁴LORD, shepherd Your people, your flock with Your staff, who dwell in solitude in the low lands and feed them, as in the days of old. ¹⁵Show them wonders as was in the days when they came out of Egypt. ¹⁶Then the other nations shall see and be ashamed of their might, putting their hand over their mouth in amassment and their ears becoming deaf. ¹⁷As they crawl like snakes on the earth. Then they shall be afraid of the LORD and shall fear Him because of you. ¹⁸There is no other God like ours, for You pardon iniquity and forgive the transgressions of Your elect. Nor do You retain Your anger forever, for You love and delight in mercy. ¹⁹Again You will have compassion on us and all our sins You cast into the depths of the sea. ²⁰Giving truth to Israel and mercy to Abraham, as was sworn to the fathers, since days of old.