Micah 1 - 3
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The word of the Lord that came to Micah a of Moresheth b in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw c concerning d Samaria and Jerusalem.
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e Hear, you peoples, all of you;
f pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and g let the Lord God be a witness against you,
h the Lord from his holy temple.
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For behold, i the Lord is coming out of j his place,
and will come down and k tread upon the high places of the earth.
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And l the mountains will melt under him,
and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
like waters poured down a steep place.
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All this is for m the transgression of Jacob
and for the sins of the house of Israel.
n What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not d Samaria?
And what is o the high place of Judah?
Is it not Jerusalem?
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Therefore I will make d Samaria p a heap in the open country,
a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones q into the valley
and r uncover her foundations.
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All s her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
t all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from t the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
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u For this I will lament and wail;
I will go v stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation w like the jackals,
and mourning x like the ostriches.
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y For her wound is incurable,
and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
to Jerusalem.
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z Tell it not in a Gath;
weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
b roll yourselves in the dust.
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Pass on your way,
inhabitants of Shaphir,
c in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
shall take away from you its standing place.
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For the inhabitants of Maroth
wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down d from the Lord
to the gate of Jerusalem.
13
Harness the steeds to the chariots,
inhabitants of e Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
to the daughter of Zion,
for in you were found
f the transgressions of Israel.
14
Therefore you shall give parting gifts
to g Moresheth-gath;
the houses of h Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
to the kings of Israel.
15
I will again bring i a conqueror to you,
inhabitants of h Mareshah;
the glory of Israel
shall come to j Adullam.
16
k Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
for the children of your delight;
k make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they shall go from you into exile.
Micah 2
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l Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil m on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
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They covet fields and n seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
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Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against o this family I am devising disaster,
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you p shall not walk haughtily,
q for it will be a time of disaster.
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In that day r they shall take up a taunt song against you
and moan bitterly,
and say, "We are utterly ruined;
s he changes the portion of my people;
s how he removes it from me!
t To an apostate he allots our fields."
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Therefore you will have none u to cast the line by lot
in the assembly of the Lord.
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v "Do not preach" - thus they preach -
w "one should not preach of such things;
x disgrace will not overtake us."
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Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
v Has the Lord grown impatient?
Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
to him who walks uprightly?
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But lately y my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war.
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The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.
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z Arise and go,
for this is no a place to rest,
because of b uncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.
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If a man should go about and c utter wind and lies,
saying, "I will preach to you d of wine and strong drink,"
he would be the preacher for this people!
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I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
e I will gather f the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
like sheep in a fold,
h like a flock in its pasture,
a noisy multitude of men.
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i He who opens the breach goes up before them;
they break through and pass the gate,
j going out by it.
Their king passes on before them,
k the Lord at their head.
Micah 3
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And I said:
l Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
m Is it not for you to know justice? -
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you n who hate the good and love the evil,
o who tear the skin from off my people
and their flesh from off their bones,
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p 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.
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q Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
r he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
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Thus says the Lord concerning s the prophets
who lead my people astray,
t who cry "Peace"
when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
who puts nothing into their mouths.
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Therefore u it shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination.
v The sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them;
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w the seers shall be disgraced,
and the diviners put to shame;
x they shall all cover their lips,
for y there is no answer from God.
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But as for me, z I am filled with power,
with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob a his transgression
and to Israel his sin.
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b Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
c who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
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d who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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e Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
f its priests teach for a price;
g its prophets practice divination for money;
h yet they lean on the Lord and i say,
"Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
j No disaster shall come upon us."
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Therefore because of you
k Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem l shall become a heap of ruins,
and m the mountain of the house n a wooded height.
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Micah 1:14
Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
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Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
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Isaiah 7:9
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.'
Jeremiah 23:13
In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
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Micah 3:1
And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? -
Micah 3:9
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.
Micah 6:1 - 2
Hear what the Lord says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
Hosea 5:1
Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.
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Isaiah 1:2
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
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Malachi 3:5
Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord 's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
Jonah 2:7
When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.
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Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
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Psalms 115:3
Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
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Amos 4:13
For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth - the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
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Psalms 97:5
The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.
Judges 5:5
The mountains quaked before the Lord, even Sinai before the Lord, the God of Israel.
Amos 9:5
The Lord God of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt.
Amos 9:13
Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.
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Micah 3:8
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.
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Micah 1:13
Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.
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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.
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2 Chronicles 28:4
And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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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.
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Micah 3:12
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
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1 Kings 16:24
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
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Ezekiel 13:14
And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Hosea 8:6
For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
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Hosea 2:12
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors.
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Hosea 2:12
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors.
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Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said: "Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Isaiah 20:2 - 4
At that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
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Job 30:29
I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
Psalms 44:19
Yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
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Isaiah 13:21
But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.
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Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
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2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
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1 Samuel 17:4
And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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Isaiah 20:4
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.
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Amos 3:6
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
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Joshua 10:3
So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying.
2 Kings 18:14
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field.
2 Chronicles 32:9
After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying.
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Micah 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 is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
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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.
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Joshua 15:44
Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.
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Micah 2:4
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.
Jeremiah 6:12
Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," declares the Lord.
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Micah 1:14
Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
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1 Samuel 22:1 - 2
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
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Isaiah 22:12
In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth.
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Isaiah 22:12
In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth.
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Isaiah 10:1 - 2
Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression.
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Psalms 36:4
He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.
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Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
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Jeremiah 8:3
Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.
Amos 3:1 - 2
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
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Isaiah 2:11
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:17
And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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Amos 5:13
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
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Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own - for how long? - and loads himself with pledges!
Numbers 23:7
And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!
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Micah 1:15
I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
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Micah 1:15
I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
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Psalms 68:6
God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
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Deuteronomy 32:8 - 9
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Joshua 14:1 - 2
These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.
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Amos 2:12
"But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.'
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Amos 8:11 - 12
Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord God, "when I will send a famine on the land - not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
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Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
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Micah 2:6
"Do not preach" - thus they preach - "one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."
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2 Chronicles 28:8
The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.
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Micah 1:11
Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.
Micah 1:16
Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
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Deuteronomy 12:9
For you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.
Hebrews 13:14
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
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Leviticus 18:25
And the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
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Jeremiah 5:13
The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'
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Amos 2:12
"But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.'
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2 Kings 25:11
And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.
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Micah 4:7
And the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
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Jeremiah 31:10
"Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
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2 Kings 25:10
And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
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Micah 4:10
Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
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Isaiah 52:12
For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
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Micah 1:2
Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
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Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
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Micah 3:9
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.
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Ezekiel 34:3
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.
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Psalms 14:4
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord ?
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" declares the Lord God of hosts.
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Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
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Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
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Jeremiah 23:13
In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
Jeremiah 23:32
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:10
Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash.
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Jeremiah 6:14
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
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Ezekiel 12:24
For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 13:23
Therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Amos 8:9
And on that day," declares the Lord God, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
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Zechariah 13:4
On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
Jeremiah 37:19
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'?
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Leviticus 13:45
"The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean.'
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Amos 8:11
Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord God, "when I will send a famine on the land - not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
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Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord ; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.
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Micah 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 is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
Ezekiel 23:36
The Lord said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
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Micah 1:2
Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
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Micah 3:2
You who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones.
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Jeremiah 22:13
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!
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Micah 7:3
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
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Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
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Micah 3:5
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.
Ezekiel 22:25
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
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Isaiah 48:2
For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.
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Jeremiah 7:4
Do not trust in these deceptive words: 'This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
Amos 5:14
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
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Jeremiah 23:17
They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, 'It shall be well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'
Amos 9:10
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, 'Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.
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Jeremiah 26:18
"Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, "'Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.'
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Micah 1:6
Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.
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Micah 4:2
And many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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Luke 13:35
Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'
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