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Micah 1 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Judgment on Israel and Judah

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
The Coming Judgment on Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:2 - Hear, all you peoples!
Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!
Let the Lord GOD be a witness against you,
The Lord from His holy temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:3 - For behold, the LORD is coming out of His place;
He will come down
And tread on the high places of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:4 - The mountains will melt under Him,
And the valleys will split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:5 - All this is for the transgression of Jacob
And for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
And what are the high places of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:6 - “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will uncover her foundations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:7 - All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the pay of a harlot.”
Mourning for Israel and Judah

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9 - For her wounds are incurable.
For it has come to Judah;
It has come to the gate of My people—
To Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:10 - Tell it not in Gath,
Weep not at all;
In Beth Aphrah[fn]
Roll yourself in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 - Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir;
The inhabitant of Zaanan[fn] does not go out.
Beth Ezel mourns;
Its place to stand is taken away from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:12 - For the inhabitant of Maroth pined[fn] for good,
But disaster came down from the LORD
To the gate of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13 - O inhabitant of Lachish,
Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:14 - Therefore you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath;[fn]
The houses of Achzib[fn] shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:15 - I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah;[fn]
The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,
Because of your precious children;
Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,
For they shall go from you into captivity.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Literally House of Dust
Literally Going Out
Literally was sick
Literally Possession of Gath
Literally Lie
Literally Inheritance
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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Micah Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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