The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Micah 2:4 (NKJV)

In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:5 (NKJV)

Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot
In the assembly of the Lord.

 

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Micah 2:6 (NKJV)

“Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy.
So they shall not prophesy to you;
They shall not return insult for insult.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:7 (NKJV)

You who are named the house of Jacob:
“Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted?
Are these His doings?
Do not My words do good
To him who walks uprightly?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:8 (NKJV)

“Lately My people have risen up as an enemy—
You pull off the robe with the garment
From those who trust you, as they pass by,
Like men returned from war.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:9 (NKJV)

The women of My people you cast out
From their pleasant houses;
From their children
You have taken away My glory forever.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:10 (NKJV)

“Arise and depart,
For this is not your rest;
Because it is defiled, it shall destroy,
Yes, with utter destruction.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:11 (NKJV)

If a man should walk in a false spirit
And speak a lie, saying,
‘I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,’
Even he would be the prattler of this people.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:12 (NKJV)

“I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together like sheep of the fold,
Like a flock in the midst of their pasture;
They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 2:13 (NKJV)

The one who breaks open will come up before them;
They will break out,
Pass through the gate,
And go out by it;
Their king will pass before them,
With the Lord at their head.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:1 (ESV)

And I said:
Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
Is it not for you to know justice?—

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:2 (ESV)

you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin from off my people
and their flesh from off their bones,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:3 (ESV)

who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:4 (ESV)

Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:5 (ESV)

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets
who lead my people astray,
who cry “Peace”
when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
who puts nothing into their mouths.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:6 (ESV)

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination.
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:7 (ESV)

the seers shall be disgraced,
and the diviners put to shame;
they shall all cover their lips,
for there is no answer from God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:8 (ESV)

But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression
and to Israel his sin.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:9 (ESV)

Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:10 (ESV)

who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.