The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jonah 4:11 (CSB)

So may I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than a hundred twenty thousand people who cannot
distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals?”

 

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Micah 1:1 (NASB)

The word of the Lord which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
and which he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.

 

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Micah 1:2 (NASB)

Hear, you peoples, all of you,
listen, earth and all who live in it,
that the Sovereign Lord may bear witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.

 

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Micah 1:3 (NASB)

Look! The Lord is coming from his dwelling place;
he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.

 

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Micah 1:4 (NASB)

The mountains melt beneath him
and the valleys split apart,
like wax before the fire,
like water rushing down a slope.

 

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Micah 1:5 (NASB)

All this is because of Jacob’s transgression,
because of the sins of the people of Israel.
What is Jacob’s transgression?
Is it not Samaria?
What is Judah’s high place?
Is it not Jerusalem?

 

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Micah 1:6 (NASB)

For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country,
Planting places for a vineyard.
I will hurl her stones down into the valley,
And lay bare her foundations.

 

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Micah 1:7 (NASB)

All of her idols will be crushed,
All of her earnings will be burned with fire,
And all of her images I will make desolate;
For she collected them from a prostitute’s earnings,
And to the earnings of a prostitute they will return.

 

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Micah 1:8 (NASB)

Because of this I must mourn and wail,
I must go barefoot and naked;
I must do mourning like the jackals,
And a mourning like the ostriches.

 

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Micah 1:9 (NASB)

For her wound is incurable,
For it has come to Judah;
It has reached the gate of my people,
Even to Jerusalem.

 

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Micah 1:10 (NASB)

Do not tell it in Gath,
Do not weep at all.
At Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust in mourning.

 

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Micah 1:11 (NASB)

Go on your way, inhabitant of Shaphir, in shameful nakedness.
The inhabitant of Zaanan does not escape.
The mourning of Beth-ezel: “He will take from you its support.

 

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Micah 1:12 (NASB)

For the inhabitant of Maroth
Waits for something good,
Because a disaster has come down from the Lord
To the gate of Jerusalem.

 

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Micah 1:13 (NASB)

Harness the chariot to the team of horses,
You inhabitant of Lachish—
She was the beginning of sin
To the daughter of Zion—
Because in you were found
The rebellious acts of Israel.

 

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Micah 1:14 (NASB)

Therefore you will give parting gifts
In behalf of Moresheth-gath;
The houses of Achzib will become a deception
To the kings of Israel.

 

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Micah 1:15 (NASB)

Moreover, I will bring on you
The one who takes possession,
You inhabitant of Mareshah.
The glory of Israel will enter Adullam.

 

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Micah 1:16 (NASB)

Shave yourself bald, yes, cut off your hair,
Because of the children of your delight;
Extend your baldness like the eagle,
For they will go from you into exile.

 

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Micah 2:1 (NKJV)

Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And work out evil on their beds!
At morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.

 

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Micah 2:2 (NKJV)

They covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.

 

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Micah 2:3 (NKJV)

Therefore thus says the Lord:

“Behold, against this family I am devising disaster,
From which you cannot remove your necks;
Nor shall you walk haughtily,
For this is an evil time.