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¶ MICAH.
894
CHAP. I.
1 Micah sheweth the wrath of God against
Iacob, for idolatry. 10 Hee exhorteth
to mourning.
1
The word of the Lord
that came to Micah the
Morasthite in the dayes
of Iotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah Kings of Iudah,
which hee saw concerning
Samaria and Ierusalem.
2
noteHeare note all ye people, hearken O
earth, and note all that therein is, and let
the Lord God be witnesse against
you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3
For behold, note the Lord commeth
forth out of his place, and will
come downe and tread vpon the note high
places of the earth.
4
And note the mountaines shall be
molten vnder him, and the valleis shall
be cleft: as waxe before the fire, and as
the waters that are powred downe note a
steepe place.
5
For the transgression of Iacob is
all this, and for the sinnes of the house of
Israel: What is the transgression of
Iacob? Is it not Samaria? and what
are the high places of Iudah? are they
not Ierusalem?
6
Therfore I will make Samaria
as an heape of the field, and as plantings
of a vineyard; and I will powre downe
the stones therof into the valley, and I
will discouer the foundations thereof.
7
And all the grauen images thereof
shall be beaten to pieces, and all the
hires thereof shall be burnt with the
fire, and all the idoles therof will I lay
desolate: for she gathered it of the hire
of an harlot, and they shall returne to
the hire of an harlot.
8
Therfore I wil waile and houle,
I will goe stript and naked: I will
make a wailing like the dragons, and
mourning as the note owles.
9
For note her wound is incurable, for it is
come vnto Iudah: he is come vnto the
gate of my people, euen to Ierusalem.
10
¶ note Declare yee it not at Gath,
weepe yee not at all: In the house of
note Aphrah note rowle thy selfe in the dust.
11
Passe yee away thou note inhabitant
of note Saphir, hauing thy note shame naked;
the inhabitant of note Zaanan came not
forth in the mourning of note Beth-ezel, he
shall receiue of you his standing.
12
For the inhabitant of Maroth
note waited carefully for good, but euill
came downe from the Lord vnto
the gate of Ierusalem.
13
O thou inhabitant of Lachish,
bind the charet to the swift beast: she is
the beginning of the sinne to the daughter
of Zion: for the transgressions of
Israel were found in thee.
14
Therfore shalt thou giue presents
note to Moresheth-Gath: the houses of
note Achzib shalbe a lie to þe; kings of Israel.
15
Yet wil I bring an heire vnto thee,
O inhabitant of Mareshah: note he shall
come vnto Adullam, the glory of Israel
16
Make thee note bald, and polle thee for
thy delicate children, enlarge thy baldnesse
as the Eagle, for they are gone into
captiuitie from thee.
895
CHAP. II.
1 Against oppression. 4 A lamentation. 7 A
reproofe of iniustice and idolatrie. 12 A promise
of restoring Iacob.
1
Woe to them that deuise
iniquitie, and worke euill
vpon their beds: when
the morning is light, they
practise it, because it is in
the power of their hand.
-- --
Iudahs plagues.
2
And they couet note fields and take
them by violence: and houses, and take
them away: so they note oppresse a man and
his house, euen a man and his heritage.
3
Therefore thus saith the Lord,
Behold, against this familie doe I deuise
an euill, from which ye shall not remoue
your necks, neither shall ye goe
haughtily: for this time is euill.
4
¶ In that day shall one take vp
a parable against you, and lament with
a note dolefull lamentation, and say, We be
vtterly spoiled: hee hath changed the
portion of my people: how hath he remoued
it from me? note turning away hee
hath diuided our fields.
5
Therefore thou shalt haue none
that shall note cast a cord by lot in the Congregation
of the Lord.
6
note note noteProphecie ye not, say they, to them
that prophecie: they shall not prophecie
to them, that they shall not take shame.
7
¶ O thou that art named the
house of Iacob, is the Spirit of the
Lord note straitned? are these his dongs?
doe not my words do good to him that
walketh note vprightly?
8
noteEuen of late, my people is risen
vp as an enemie: ye pull off the robe
note with the garment, fr&obar; them that passe
by securely, as men auerse from warre.
9
The note women of my people haue
ye cast out from their pleasant houses,
from their children haue ye taken away
my glory for euer.
10
Arise ye and depart, for this is not
your rest: because it is polluted, it shall
destroy you euen with a sore destruction.
11
If a man note walking in the spirit
and falshood, doe lie, saying, I will prophecie
vnto thee of wine and of strong
drinke, he shall euen bee the prophet of
this people.
12
¶ I will surely assemble, O Iacob,
all of thee: I will surely gather
the remnant of Israel, I will put them
together as the sheepe of Bozrah, as
the flocke in the midst of their fold: they
shall make great noise by reason of the
multitude of men.
13
The breaker is come vp before
them: they haue broken vp and haue
passed through the gate, and are gone
out by it, and their king shal passe before
them, ∧ the Lord on the head of them.
896
CHAP. III.
1 The crueltie of the Princes. 5 The falshood of
the Prophets. 8 The security of them both.
Pleasing prophets.
1
And I said, Heare, I pray
you, O heads of Iacob,
and ye princes of the house
of Israel: is it not for you
to know iudgement?
2
Who hate the good and loue the
euill, who plucke off their skinne from
off them, and their flesh from off their
bones.
3
Who also eate the flesh of my people,
and flay their skinne from off them,
and they breake their bones, and chop
them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh
within the cauldron.
4
Then shall they cry vnto the
Lord, but he will not heare them: he
will euen hide his face from them at
that time, as they haue behaued themselues
ill in their doings.
5
¶ Thus saith the Lord concerning
the Prophets that make my people
erre, that note bite with their teeth and
crie; Peace: and he that putteth not into
their mouths, they euen prepare
warre against him:
6
Therefore night shall be vnto you,
note that yee shall not haue a vision, and it
shall be darke vnto you, note that yee shall
not diuine, and the Sunne shall goe
downe ouer the Prophets, and the day
shall be darke ouer them.
7
Then shall the seers be ashamed,
and the diuiners confounded: yea, they
shall all couer their note lips; for there is no
answere of God.
8
¶ But truely I am full of power
by the spirit of the Lord, and of iudgment
and of might, to declare vnto Iacob
his transgression, and to Israel his
sinne.
9
Heare this, I pray you, yee heads
of the house of Iacob, and princes of the
house of Israel, that abhorre iudgement
and peruert all equitie.
10
They build vp Zion with note note blood,
and Ierusalem with iniquitie.
11
The heads thereof iudge for reward,
and the priests thereof teach for
hyre, and the Prophets thereof diuine
for money: yet will they leane vpon the
Lord, note and say; Is not the Lord
among vs? none euill can come vpon
vs.
12
Therefore shall Zion for your
sake be note plowed as a field, and Ierusalem
shal become heapes, and the mountaine
of the house, as the high places of
the forrest.
-- --
The glory of the Church.
897
CHAP. IIII.
1 The Glory, 3 Peace, 8 Kingdome, 11 and
Victorie of the Church.
1
But note in the last dayes it
shal come to passe, that the
mountaine of the house
of the Lord shall be
established in the top of
the mountaines, and it
shalbe exalted aboue the hilles, and people
shall flow vnto it.
2
And many nations shall come,
and say; Come, and let vs goe vp to the
mountaine of the Lord, and to the
house of the God of Iacob, and he will
teach vs of his wayes, and wee will
walke in his pathes: for the Law shall
goe foorth of Zion, and the word of the
Lord from Ierusalem.
3
¶ And he shall iudge among many
people, and rebuke strong nations
afarre off, and they shall beate their
swords into note plowshares, and their
speares into note pruning hookes: nation
shall not lift vp a sword against nation,
neither shall they learne warre any
more.
4
But they shall sit euery man vnder
his Uine, and vnder his figgetree,
and none shal make them afraid: for the
mouth of the Lord of hostes hath
spoken it.
5
For all people will walke euery
one in the name of his god, and we will
walke in the Name of the Lord our
God for euer and euer.
6
In that day, saith the Lord,
will I assemble her that halteth, and
I will gather her that is driuen out,
and her that I haue afflicted.
7
And I will make her that note halted,
a remnant; and her that was cast
farre off, a strong nation; and the
Lord note shall reigne ouer them, in
Mount Zion from hencefoorth, euen
for euer.
8
¶ And thou, O towre of the flock,
the strong hold of the daughter of Zion,
vnto thee shall it come, euen the first
dominion, the kingdome shall come to
the daughter of Ierusalem.
9
Now why doest thou cry out alowd?
is there no king in thee? is thy
counseller perished? for pangs haue taken
thee, as a woman in trauell.
10
Bee in paine and labour to bring
forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman
in trauell: for now shalt thou goe
The glory of the Church.
foorth out of the citie, and thou shalt
dwel in the field, and thou shalt go euen
to Babylon: there shalt thou be deliuered:
there the Lord shall redeeme
thee from the hand of thine enemies.
11
¶ Now also many nations are
gathered against thee, that say, Let her
be defiled, ∧ let our eye look vpon Zion.
12
But they know not the thoughts
of the Lord, neither vnderstand they
his counsell: for hee shall gather them
as the sheaues into the floore.
13
Arise and thresh, O daughter of
Zion: for I will make thine horne
yron, ∧ I will make thy hooues brasse,
and thou shalt beat in pieces many people:
and I will consecrate their gaine
vnto the Lord, and their substance
vnto the Lord of the whole earth.
898
CHAP. V.
1 The birth of Christ. 4 His Kingdome.
8 His conquest.
1
Now gather thy selfe in
troupes, O daughter of
troupes: he hath laid siege
against vs: they shal smite
the Iudge of Israel with
a rod vpon the cheeke.
2
But thou note Beth-leem Ephratah,
though thou bee little among the thousands
of Iudah, yet out of thee shall he
come foorth vnto mee, that is to be ruler
in Israel: whose goings foorth haue
bene from of old, note from euerlasting.
3
Therefore will hee giue them vp,
vntill the time that shee which trauaileth,
hath brought forth: then the remnant
of his brethren shall returne vnto
the children of Israel.
4
¶ And he shall stand and note feed in
the strength of the Lord, in the Maiestie
of the Name of the Lord his
God, and they shall abide: for now shall
he be great vnto the ends of the earth.
5
And this man shall bee the peace
when the Assyrian shall come into our
land: and when hee shall tread in our
palaces, then shall we raise against him
seuen Shepheards, and eight note principall
men.
6
And they shall note waste the land of
Assyria with the sword, and the land of
Nimrod note in the entrances thereof:
thus shall hee deliuer vs from the Assyrian,
when he commeth into our land,
and when hee treadeth within our
borders.
-- --
Gods controuersie with his people.
7
And the remnant of Iacob shall
be in the midst of many people, as a dew
from the Lord, as the showres vpon
the grasse that tarieth not for man,
nor waiteth for the sonnes of men.
8
¶ And the remnant of Iacob shal
be among the Gentiles in the middest of
many people, as a Lyon among the
beasts of the forrest, as a yong Lyon among
the flockes of note sheepe: who if he
goe through, both treadeth downe, and
teareth in pieces, and none can deliuer.
9
Thine hand shall be lift vp vpon
thine aduersaries, and all thine enemies
shalbe cut off.
10
And it shall come to passe in that
day, sayth the Lord, that I will cut
off thy horses out of the midst of thee,
and I will destroy thy charets.
11
And I will cut off the cities of thy
land, and throw downe all thy strong
holdes.
12
And I will cut off witchcrafts out
of thine hand, and thou shalt haue no
more Southsayers.
13
Thy grauen images also will I
cut off, and thy note standing images out of
the midst of thee: ∧ thou shalt no more
worship the worke of thine hands.
14
And I will plucke vp thy groues
out of the middest of thee: so will I destroy
thy note cities.
15
And I will execute vengeance in
anger, and furie vpon the heathen, such
as they haue not heard.
899
CHAP. VI.
1 Gods controuersie for vnkindnesse, 6 for ignorance,
10 for iniustice, 16 and for idolatry.
1
Heare yee now what the
Lord saith, Arise, contend
thou note before the
note mountaines, and let the
hilles heare thy voice.
2
Heare yee, O mountaines, the
Lords controuersie, and ye strong
foundations of the earth: for the
Lord hath a controuersie with his
people, and he will pleade with Israel.
3
O my people, what haue I done
vnto thee, and wherein haue I wearied
thee? testifie against me.
4
For I brought thee vp out of the
land of note Egypt, and redeemed thee out
of the house of seruants, and I sent before
thee Moses, Aaron and Miriam.
5
O my people, remember now
what note Balak king of Moab consulted,
Gods controuersie with his people.
and what Balaam the sonne of Beor
answered him from note note Shittim vnto
Gilgal, that yee may know the righteousnesse
of the Lord.
6
¶ Wherewith shall I come before
the Lord, and bow my selfe before
the high God? shall I come before
him with burnt offerings, with calues
note of a yeere olde?
7
Will the Lord be pleased with
thousands of rammes, or with tenne
thousands of riuers of oyle? shall I
giue my first borne for my transgression,
the fruit of my note body for the sinne of my
soule?
8
Hee hath note shewed thee, O man,
what is good; and what doeth the
Lord require of thee, but to do iustly,
and to loue mercy, and to note walke
humbly with thy God?
9
The Lords voice cryeth vnto
the citie, and |
