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Micah 1 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:1 - And the word of the Lord came to Michæas the son of Morasthi, in the days of Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, concerning what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:2 - Hear these words, ye people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:3 - For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and will go upon the high places of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:4 - And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:5 - All these calamities are for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what is the sin of the house of Juda? is it not Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:6 - Therefore I will make Samaria as a store-house of the fruits of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9 - For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:10 - Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye Enakim, do not rebuild from the ruins of the house in derision: sprinkle dust in the place of your laughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 - The inhabitant of Sennaar, fairly inhabiting her cities, came not forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:12 - Who has begun to act for good to her that dwells in sorrow? for calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13 - even a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion: for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:14 - Therefore shall he cause men to be sent forth as far as the inheritance of Geth, even vain houses; they are become vanity to the kings of Israel;
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:15 - until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Shave thine hair, and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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