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Micah 1:1-4:13

Judgment to Come

(Isaiah 7:17–25)

1 This is the word of the Lord that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah — what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:

2 Hear, O peoples, all of you;

listen, O earth, and everyone in it!

May the Lord GOD bear witness against you,

the Lord from His holy temple.

3 For behold, the Lord comes forth

from His dwelling place;

He will come down and tread

on the high places of the earth.

4 The mountains will melt beneath Him,

and the valleys will split apart,

like wax before the fire,

like water rushing down a slope.

5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob

and the sins of the house of Israel.

What is the transgression of Jacob?

Is it not Samaria?

And what is the high place of Judah?

Is it not Jerusalem?

6 Therefore I will make Samaria

a heap of rubble in the open field,

a planting area for a vineyard.

I will pour her stones into the valley

and expose her foundations.

7 All her carved images will be smashed to pieces;

all her wages will be burned in the fire,

and I will destroy all her idols.

Since she collected the wages of a prostitute,

they will be used again on a prostitute.

Weeping and Mourning

8 Because of this I will lament and wail;

I will walk barefoot and naked.

I will howl like a jackal

and mourn like an ostrich.

9 For her wound is incurable;

it has reached even Judah;

it has approached the gate of my people,

as far as Jerusalem itself.

10 Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all.

Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

11 Depart in shameful nakedness,

O dwellers of Shaphir.

The dwellers of Zaanan

will not come out.

Beth-ezel is in mourning;

its support is taken from you.

12 For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good,

but calamity came down from the Lord,

even to the gate of Jerusalem.

13 Harness your chariot horses,

O dweller of Lachish.

You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion,

for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

14 Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath;

the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive

to the kings of Israel.

15 I will again bring a conqueror against you,

O dweller of Mareshah.

The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

16 Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair

in mourning for your precious children;

make yourselves as bald as an eagle,

for they will go from you into exile.

Woe to Oppressors

1 Woe to those who devise iniquity

and plot evil on their beds!

At morning’s light they accomplish it

because the power is in their hands.

2 They covet fields and seize them;

they take away houses.

They deprive a man of his home,

a fellow man of his inheritance.

3 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“I am planning against this nation a disaster

from which you cannot free your necks.

Then you will not walk so proudly,

for it will be a time of calamity.

4 In that day they will take up a proverb against you

and taunt you with this bitter lamentation:

‘We are utterly ruined!

He has changed the portion of my people.

How He has removed it from me!

He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

5 Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord

to divide the land by lot.

Reproof of False Prophets

(Ezekiel 13:1–16)

6“Do not preach,” they preach.

“Do not preach these things;

disgrace will not overtake us.”

7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob,

“Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?

Are these the things He does?”

Do not My words bring good

to him who walks uprightly?

8 But of late My people have risen up

like an enemy:

You strip off the splendid robe

from unsuspecting passersby

like men returning from battle.

9 You drive the women of My people

from their pleasant homes.

You take away My blessing

from their children forever.

10 Arise and depart,

for this is not your place of rest,

because its defilement brings destruction—

a grievous destruction!

11 If a man of wind were to come

and say falsely,

“I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”

he would be just the preacher for this people!

The Remnant of Israel

(Micah 5:7–15)

12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob;

I will collect the remnant of Israel.

I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,

like a flock in the midst of its pasture —

a noisy throng.

13 One who breaks open the way

will go up before them;

they will break through the gate,

and go out by it.

Their King will pass through before them,

the Lord as their leader.

Rulers and Prophets Condemned

1 Then I said:

“Hear now, O leaders of Jacob,

you rulers of the house of Israel.

Should you not know justice?

2 You hate good and love evil.

You tear the skin from my people

and strip the flesh from their bones.

3 You eat the flesh of my people

after stripping off their skin

and breaking their bones.

You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot,

like meat in a cauldron.”

4 Then they will cry out to the Lord,

but He will not answer them.

At that time He will hide His face from them

because of the evil they have done.

5 This is what the Lord says:

“As for the prophets

who lead My people astray,

who proclaim peace

while they chew with their teeth,

but declare war against one

who puts nothing in their mouths:

6 Therefore night will come over you without visions,

and darkness without divination.

The sun will set on these prophets,

and the daylight will turn black over them.

7 Then the seers will be ashamed

and the diviners will be disgraced.

They will all cover their mouths

because there is no answer from God.”

8 As for me, however, I am filled with power

by the Spirit of the Lord,

with justice and courage,

to declare to Jacob his transgression

and to Israel his sin.

9 Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob

and rulers of the house of Israel,

who despise justice

and pervert all that is right,

10 who build Zion with bloodshed

and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,

her priests teach for a price,

and her prophets practice divination for money.

Yet they lean upon the Lord, saying,

“Is not the Lord among us?

No disaster can come upon us.”

12 Therefore, because of you,

Zion will be plowed like a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,

and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

The Mountain of the House of the Lord

(Isaiah 2:1–4)

1 In the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord

will be established as the chief of the mountains;

it will be raised above the hills,

and the peoples will stream to it.

2 And many nations will come and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us His ways,

so that we may walk in His paths.”

For the law will go forth from Zion

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

3 Then He will judge between many peoples

and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide.

Then they will beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation,

nor will they train anymore for war.

4 And each man will sit under his own vine

and under his own fig tree,

with no one to frighten him.

For the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

5 Though all the nations

may walk in the name of their gods,

yet we will walk in the name of the Lord our God

forever and ever.

The Restoration of Zion

(Zechariah 8:1–23)

6“On that day,” declares the Lord,

“I will gather the lame;

I will assemble the outcast,

even those whom I have afflicted.

7 And I will make the lame into a remnant,

the outcast into a strong nation.

Then the Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion

from that day and forever.

8 And you, O watchtower of the flock,

O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion —

the former dominion will be restored to you;

sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”

9 Why do you now cry aloud?

Is there no king among you?

Has your counselor perished

so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

10 Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion,

like a woman in labor.

For now you will leave the city

and camp in the open fields.

You will go to Babylon;

there you will be rescued;

there the Lord will redeem you

from the hand of your enemies!

11 But now many nations

have assembled against you,

saying, “Let her be defiled,

and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”

12 But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord

or understand His plan,

for He has gathered them

like sheaves to the threshing floor.

13 Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion,

for I will give you horns of iron

and hooves of bronze

to break to pieces many peoples.

Then you will devote their gain to the Lord,

their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Revelation 6:1-17

The First Seal: The White Horse

1 Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”

2 So I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown, and he rode out to overcome and conquer.

The Second Seal: War

3 And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”

4 Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make men slay one another. And he was given a great sword.

The Third Seal: Famine

5 And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!”

Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales. 6And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.”

The Fourth Seal: Death

7 And when the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”

8 Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.

The Fifth Seal: The Martyrs

9 And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld. 10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

11 Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

The Sixth Seal: Terror

12 And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, 13and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind. 14The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

15 Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. 17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

Psalm 134:1-3

Bless the Lord, All You Servants

1 A song of ascents.

Come, bless the Lord,

all you servants of the Lord

who serve by night

in the house of the Lord!

2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary

and bless the Lord!

3 May the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth,

bless you from Zion.

Proverbs 30:1-4

The Words of Agur

1 These are the words of Agur son of Jakeh — the burden that this man declared to Ithiel:

“I am weary, O God,

and worn out.

2 Surely I am the most ignorant of men,

and I lack the understanding of a man.

3 I have not learned wisdom,

and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.

4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down?

Who has gathered the wind in His hands?

Who has bound up the waters in His cloak?

Who has established all the ends of the earth?

What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—

surely you know!

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One Year Bible

Micah 1:1-4:13

Revelation 6:1-17

Psalm 134:1-3

Proverbs 30:1-4