bible-app/Translations/NKJV/NKJV_books/Micah.json

{
  "Info": {
    "Language": "English",
    "Meaningless": "1.2.0",
    "Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:56:57.363058-04:00",
    "Translation": "NKJV"
  },
  "Micah": {
    "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.",
      "2": "Hear, all you peoples!\nListen, O earth, and all that is in it!\nLet the Lord God be a witness against you,\nThe Lord from His holy temple.",
      "3": "For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place;\nHe will come down\nAnd tread on the high places of the earth.",
      "4": "The mountains will melt under Him,\nAnd the valleys will split\nLike wax before the fire,\nLike waters poured down a steep place.",
      "5": "All this is for the transgression of Jacob\nAnd for the sins of the house of Israel.\nWhat is the transgression of Jacob?\nIs it not Samaria?\nAnd what are the high places of Judah?\nAre they not Jerusalem?",
      "6": "“Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,\nPlaces for planting a vineyard;\nI will pour down her stones into the valley,\nAnd I will uncover her foundations.",
      "7": "All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,\nAnd all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;\nAll her idols I will lay desolate,\nFor she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,\nAnd they shall return to the pay of a harlot.”",
      "8": "Therefore I will wail and howl,\nI will go stripped and naked;\nI will make a wailing like the jackals\nAnd a mourning like the ostriches,",
      "9": "For her wounds are incurable.\nFor it has come to Judah;\nIt has come to the gate of My people—\nTo Jerusalem.",
      "10": "Tell it not in Gath,\nWeep not at all;\nIn Beth Aphrah\nRoll yourself in the dust.",
      "11": "Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir;\nThe inhabitant of Zaanan does not go out.\nBeth Ezel mourns;\nIts place to stand is taken away from you.",
      "12": "For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good,\nBut disaster came down from the Lord\nTo the gate of Jerusalem.",
      "13": "O inhabitant of Lachish,\nHarness the chariot to the swift steeds\n(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),\nFor the transgressions of Israel were found in you.",
      "14": "Therefore you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath;\nThe houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.",
      "15": "I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah;\nThe glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.",
      "16": "Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,\nBecause of your precious children;\nEnlarge your baldness like an eagle,\nFor they shall go from you into captivity."
    },
    "2": {
      "1": "Woe to those who devise iniquity,\nAnd work out evil on their beds!\nAt morning light they practice it,\nBecause it is in the power of their hand.",
      "2": "They covet fields and take them by violence,\nAlso houses, and seize them.\nSo they oppress a man and his house,\nA man and his inheritance.",
      "3": "Therefore thus says the Lord:\n“Behold, against this family I am devising disaster,\nFrom which you cannot remove your necks;\nNor shall you walk haughtily,\nFor this is an evil time.",
      "4": "In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,\nAnd lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:\n‘We are utterly destroyed!\nHe has changed the heritage of my people;\nHow He has removed it from me!\nTo a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”",
      "5": "Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot\nIn the assembly of the Lord.",
      "6": "“Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy.\nSo they shall not prophesy to you;\nThey shall not return insult for insult.",
      "7": "You who are named the house of Jacob:\n“Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted?\nAre these His doings?\nDo not My words do good\nTo him who walks uprightly?",
      "8": "“Lately My people have risen up as an enemy—\nYou pull off the robe with the garment\nFrom those who trust you, as they pass by,\nLike men returned from war.",
      "9": "The women of My people you cast out\nFrom their pleasant houses;\nFrom their children\nYou have taken away My glory forever.",
      "10": "“Arise and depart,\nFor this is not your rest;\nBecause it is defiled, it shall destroy,\nYes, with utter destruction.",
      "11": "If a man should walk in a false spirit\nAnd speak a lie, saying,\n‘I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,’\nEven he would be the prattler of this people.",
      "12": "“I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,\nI will surely gather the remnant of Israel;\nI will put them together like sheep of the fold,\nLike a flock in the midst of their pasture;\nThey shall make a loud noise because of so many people.",
      "13": "The one who breaks open will come up before them;\nThey will break out,\nPass through the gate,\nAnd go out by it;\nTheir king will pass before them,\nWith the Lord at their head.”"
    },
    "3": {
      "1": "And I said:\n“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,\nAnd you rulers of the house of Israel:\nIs it not for you to know justice?",
      "2": "You who hate good and love evil;\nWho strip the skin from My people,\nAnd the flesh from their bones;",
      "3": "Who also eat the flesh of My people,\nFlay their skin from them,\nBreak their bones,\nAnd chop them in pieces\nLike meat for the pot,\nLike flesh in the caldron.”",
      "4": "Then they will cry to the Lord,\nBut He will not hear them;\nHe will even hide His face from them at that time,\nBecause they have been evil in their deeds.",
      "5": "Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets\nWho make my people stray;\nWho chant “Peace”\nWhile they chew with their teeth,\nBut who prepare war against him\nWho puts nothing into their mouths:",
      "6": "“Therefore you shall have night without vision,\nAnd you shall have darkness without divination;\nThe sun shall go down on the prophets,\nAnd the day shall be dark for them.",
      "7": "So the seers shall be ashamed,\nAnd the diviners abashed;\nIndeed they shall all cover their lips;\nFor there is no answer from God.”",
      "8": "But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,\nAnd of justice and might,\nTo declare to Jacob his transgression\nAnd to Israel his sin.",
      "9": "Now hear this,\nYou heads of the house of Jacob\nAnd rulers of the house of Israel,\nWho abhor justice\nAnd pervert all equity,",
      "10": "Who build up Zion with bloodshed\nAnd Jerusalem with iniquity:",
      "11": "Her heads judge for a bribe,\nHer priests teach for pay,\nAnd her prophets divine for money.\nYet they lean on the Lord, and say,\n“Is not the Lord among us?\nNo harm can come upon us.”",
      "12": "Therefore because of you\nZion shall be plowed like a field,\nJerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,\nAnd the mountain of the temple\nLike the bare hills of the forest."
    },
    "4": {
      "1": "Now it shall come to pass in the latter days\nThat the mountain of the Lord’s house\nShall be established on the top of the mountains,\nAnd shall be exalted above the hills;\nAnd peoples shall flow to it.",
      "2": "Many nations shall come and say,\n“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,\nTo the house of the God of Jacob;\nHe will teach us His ways,\nAnd we shall walk in His paths.”\nFor out of Zion the law shall go forth,\nAnd the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.",
      "3": "He shall judge between many peoples,\nAnd rebuke strong nations afar off;\nThey shall beat their swords into plowshares,\nAnd their spears into pruning hooks;\nNation shall not lift up sword against nation,\nNeither shall they learn war anymore.",
      "4": "But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree,\nAnd no one shall make them afraid;\nFor the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.",
      "5": "For all people walk each in the name of his god,\nBut we will walk in the name of the Lord our God\nForever and ever.",
      "6": "“In that day,” says the Lord,\n“I will assemble the lame,\nI will gather the outcast\nAnd those whom I have afflicted;",
      "7": "I will make the lame a remnant,\nAnd the outcast a strong nation;\nSo the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion\nFrom now on, even forever.",
      "8": "And you, O tower of the flock,\nThe stronghold of the daughter of Zion,\nTo you shall it come,\nEven the former dominion shall come,\nThe kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.”",
      "9": "Now why do you cry aloud?\nIs there no king in your midst?\nHas your counselor perished?\nFor pangs have seized you like a woman in labor.",
      "10": "Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,\nO daughter of Zion,\nLike a woman in birth pangs.\nFor now you shall go forth from the city,\nYou shall dwell in the field,\nAnd to Babylon you shall go.\nThere you shall be delivered;\nThere the Lord will redeem you\nFrom the hand of your enemies.",
      "11": "Now also many nations have gathered against you,\nWho say, “Let her be defiled,\nAnd let our eye look upon Zion.”",
      "12": "But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord,\nNor do they understand His counsel;\nFor He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor.",
      "13": "“Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;\nFor I will make your horn iron,\nAnd I will make your hooves bronze;\nYou shall beat in pieces many peoples;\nI will consecrate their gain to the Lord,\nAnd their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.”"
    },
    "5": {
      "1": "Now gather yourself in troops,\nO daughter of troops;\nHe has laid siege against us;\nThey will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.",
      "2": "“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,\nThough you are little among the thousands of Judah,\nYet out of you shall come forth to Me\nThe One to be Ruler in Israel,\nWhose goings forth are from of old,\nFrom everlasting.”",
      "3": "Therefore He shall give them up,\nUntil the time that she who is in labor has given birth;\nThen the remnant of His brethren\nShall return to the children of Israel.",
      "4": "And He shall stand and feed His flock\nIn the strength of the Lord,\nIn the majesty of the name of the Lord His God;\nAnd they shall abide,\nFor now He shall be great\nTo the ends of the earth;",
      "5": "And this One shall be peace.\nWhen the Assyrian comes into our land,\nAnd when he treads in our palaces,\nThen we will raise against him\nSeven shepherds and eight princely men.",
      "6": "They shall waste with the sword the land of Assyria,\nAnd the land of Nimrod at its entrances;\nThus He shall deliver us from the Assyrian,\nWhen he comes into our land\nAnd when he treads within our borders.",
      "7": "Then the remnant of Jacob\nShall be in the midst of many peoples,\nLike dew from the Lord,\nLike showers on the grass,\nThat tarry for no man\nNor wait for the sons of men.",
      "8": "And the remnant of Jacob\nShall be among the Gentiles,\nIn the midst of many peoples,\nLike a lion among the beasts of the forest,\nLike a young lion among flocks of sheep,\nWho, if he passes through,\nBoth treads down and tears in pieces,\nAnd none can deliver.",
      "9": "Your hand shall be lifted against your adversaries,\nAnd all your enemies shall be cut off.",
      "10": "“And it shall be in that day,” says the Lord,\n“That I will cut off your horses from your midst\nAnd destroy your chariots.",
      "11": "I will cut off the cities of your land\nAnd throw down all your strongholds.",
      "12": "I will cut off sorceries from your hand,\nAnd you shall have no soothsayers.",
      "13": "Your carved images I will also cut off,\nAnd your sacred pillars from your midst;\nYou shall no more worship the work of your hands;",
      "14": "I will pluck your wooden images from your midst;\nThus I will destroy your cities.",
      "15": "And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury\nOn the nations that have not heard.”"
    },
    "6": {
      "1": "Hear now what the Lord says:\n“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,\nAnd let the hills hear your voice.",
      "2": "Hear, O you mountains, the Lord’s complaint,\nAnd you strong foundations of the earth;\nFor the Lord has a complaint against His people,\nAnd He will contend with Israel.",
      "3": "“O My people, what have I done to you?\nAnd how have I wearied you?\nTestify against Me.",
      "4": "For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,\nI redeemed you from the house of bondage;\nAnd I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.",
      "5": "O My people, remember now\nWhat Balak king of Moab counseled,\nAnd what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,\nFrom Acacia Grove to Gilgal,\nThat you may know the righteousness of the Lord.”",
      "6": "With what shall I come before the Lord,\nAnd bow myself before the High God?\nShall I come before Him with burnt offerings,\nWith calves a year old?",
      "7": "Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,\nTen thousand rivers of oil?\nShall I give my firstborn for my transgression,\nThe fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?",
      "8": "He has shown you, O man, what is good;\nAnd what does the Lord require of you\nBut to do justly,\nTo love mercy,\nAnd to walk humbly with your God?",
      "9": "The Lord’s voice cries to the city—\nWisdom shall see Your name: \n“Hear the rod!\nWho has appointed it?",
      "10": "Are there yet the treasures of wickedness\nIn the house of the wicked,\nAnd the short measure that is an abomination?",
      "11": "Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales,\nAnd with the bag of deceitful weights?",
      "12": "For her rich men are full of violence,\nHer inhabitants have spoken lies,\nAnd their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.",
      "13": "“Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you,\nBy making you desolate because of your sins.",
      "14": "You shall eat, but not be satisfied;\nHunger shall be in your midst.\nYou may carry some away, but shall not save them;\nAnd what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.",
      "15": "“You shall sow, but not reap;\nYou shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;\nAnd make sweet wine, but not drink wine.",
      "16": "For the statutes of Omri are kept;\nAll the works of Ahab’s house are done;\nAnd you walk in their counsels,\nThat I may make you a desolation,\nAnd your inhabitants a hissing.\nTherefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.”"
    },
    "7": {
      "1": "Woe is me!\nFor I am like those who gather summer fruits,\nLike those who glean vintage grapes;\nThere is no cluster to eat\nOf the first-ripe fruit which my soul desires.",
      "2": "The faithful man has perished from the earth,\nAnd there is no one upright among men.\nThey all lie in wait for blood;\nEvery man hunts his brother with a net.",
      "3": "That they may successfully do evil with both hands—\nThe prince asks for gifts,\nThe judge seeks a bribe,\nAnd the great man utters his evil desire;\nSo they scheme together.",
      "4": "The best of them is like a brier;\nThe most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge;\nThe day of your watchman and your punishment comes;\nNow shall be their perplexity.",
      "5": "Do not trust in a friend;\nDo not put your confidence in a companion;\nGuard the doors of your mouth\nFrom her who lies in your bosom.",
      "6": "For son dishonors father,\nDaughter rises against her mother,\nDaughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;\nA man’s enemies are the men of his own household.",
      "7": "Therefore I will look to the Lord;\nI will wait for the God of my salvation;\nMy God will hear me.",
      "8": "Do not rejoice over me, my enemy;\nWhen I fall, I will arise;\nWhen I sit in darkness,\nThe Lord will be a light to me.",
      "9": "I will bear the indignation of the Lord,\nBecause I have sinned against Him,\nUntil He pleads my case\nAnd executes justice for me.\nHe will bring me forth to the light;\nI will see His righteousness.",
      "10": "Then she who is my enemy will see,\nAnd shame will cover her who said to me,\n“Where is the Lord your God?”\nMy eyes will see her;\nNow she will be trampled down\nLike mud in the streets.",
      "11": "In the day when your walls are to be built,\nIn that day the decree shall go far and wide.",
      "12": "In that day they shall come to you\nFrom Assyria and the fortified cities,\nFrom the fortress to the River,\nFrom sea to sea,\nAnd mountain to mountain.",
      "13": "Yet the land shall be desolate\nBecause of those who dwell in it,\nAnd for the fruit of their deeds.",
      "14": "Shepherd Your people with Your staff,\nThe flock of Your heritage,\nWho dwell solitarily in a woodland,\nIn the midst of Carmel;\nLet them feed in Bashan and Gilead,\nAs in days of old.",
      "15": "“As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,\nI will show them wonders.”",
      "16": "The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;\nThey shall put their hand over their mouth;\nTheir ears shall be deaf.",
      "17": "They shall lick the dust like a serpent;\nThey shall crawl from their holes like snakes of the earth.\nThey shall be afraid of the Lord our God,\nAnd shall fear because of You.",
      "18": "Who is a God like You,\nPardoning iniquity\nAnd passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? \nHe does not retain His anger forever,\nBecause He delights in mercy.",
      "19": "He will again have compassion on us,\nAnd will subdue our iniquities. \nYou will cast all our sins\nInto the depths of the sea.",
      "20": "You will give truth to Jacob\nAnd mercy to Abraham,\nWhich You have sworn to our fathers\nFrom days of old."
    }
  }
}